ABSTRACT
A leading player in the attempt to study global society is the Yearbook on Global Civil Society. It offers as a working definition: “the sphere of ideas, values, organizations, networks, and individuals located primarily outside the institutional complexes of family, market, and state, and beyond the confines of national societies, polities, and economies.”1 Crucial to emerging global society is the information revolution, with its computer network allowing for the transcendence of national and local boundaries. Obviously, if states can block or censor the exchange that takes place on the net (as a number do), the movement toward a global society is slowed down if not thwarted.
