Internet Precautions
To appreciate the complete size of the Internet, even Google has only mapped roughly around 10% of the Internet as a whole. In that 10% alone, one already sees results in the millions, all from a single query. Supposedly, the rest is made up of broken links, abandoned sites, or web pages of illegal or dubious content, aside from the IRCs and other forms of communication on the Internet.
And this is Internet as a whole, when in fact it is not. People see the Internet as a number of niches connected by links. It is more like a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces don’t exactly fit each other. It is not like the real world, where each country has clearly defined boundaries — and creating a presence on the Internet, which is more or less the goal of any Internet business, is bound to come up fragmented, misunderstood or worse, ignored.
For example, take low or the legal system. In the United States you might be looking for lawyers or expect a jury of your peers, but that system is not a global thing. In the Internet, laws are interpreted and enforced not only by lawyers, but also by a solicitor or or an advocate. Depending on where you are, where your server is, and where the receiver of the Internet transaction is, you may be dealing with all three kinds of lawyers, and not only one
The Internet is global, and the ease of communication regardless of distance makes it easy to forget that it is global. As long as you remember to be careful in speech, to be clear and concise and to be certain of being understood, the need for legality on the Internet decreases.
As it should be.
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