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Interpretation of the Concept of “Cyberspace Sovereignty”

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Now the concept of cyberspace sovereignty has attracted more and more attention. With the evolution of time, there have been various interpretations about the concept of cyberspace sovereignty, but the fundamental ideas of those interpretations are all about determination of the ownership of rights over networks and the space in which networks are involved.

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Fang, B. (2018). Interpretation of the Concept of “Cyberspace Sovereignty”. In: Cyberspace Sovereignty . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0320-3_3

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