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spir-11237	Horne, Chelsea; Sinnreich, Aram	THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF ANALOGIES: COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AS POWER IN ONLINE GOVERNANCE	2020.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1322	70	43	The internet as unknowable except through metaphor Next, considering the breadth and variety of metaphors in use, this paper will focus on three case studies of internet governance applied to US law: section 230 of the Communication Decency Act (CDA), the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Yet the episode itself can be understood as evidence of a larger truth—one that both exculpates Stevens somewhat and underlines a broader challenge for internet governance: Namely, that nearly all internet laws and regulations necessarily rely on imperfect metaphor and analogy to keep them in accordance with pre-digital law and constitutional principles, and that even lawmakers and judges with considerable expertise in the field must also rely upon these figurative language.	cache/spir-11237.pdf	txt/spir-11237.txt