ABSTRACT
This book has offered an overview, a collection of key resources, and a review of the key challenges for media self-regulation. In this final chapter, we attempt to distil the key points for practitioners who may be reflecting on their own self-regulatory strategy in the light of recent developments and also for recommendations for public policy. The first decade of the commercial World Wide Web was one in which there was broad-based public policy support for self-regulation in general, and particularly in communications. What emerges from reflection on that decade and upon the vogue for more complex co-regulatory structures increasingly determines the framework for freedom of communication on the Internet, and therefore for freedom of communication generally.
