--- title: Why Don’t We Regulate the Internet? description: Why the oceans have the most to lose in Paris, why censoring terrorist websites might backfire and more. canonical: https://time.com/4129083/why-dont-we-regulate-the-internet/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-30T17:17:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:50.837Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Don’t We Regulate the Internet? og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4129083/why-dont-we-regulate-the-internet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Don’t We Regulate the Internet? twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Don’t We Regulate the Internet? by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 30, 2015 5:17 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 30, 2015 5:17 PM UTC **1\.** [**The internet is built to be addictive. So why don’t we regulate it?**](https://aeon.co/essays/if-the-internet-is-addictive-why-don-t-we-regulate-it) By Michael Schulson in Aeon **2\.** [**As the Paris climate talks get under way, oceans have the most to lose.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/health%5Fand%5Fscience/science/2015/11/ocean%5Facidification%5Fand%5Fclimate%5Fchange%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fparis%5Ftalks.html) By Eric Holthaus in Slate **3\.** [**Censoring their websites won’t stop terrorists, and it might make them stronger.**](http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/111665/shutting-down-jihadist-websites-wont-stop-terrorism) By Kaveh Waddell in the National Journal **4\.** [**Does microcredit really work for global development?**](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/microcredit-muhammad-yunus-bono-clinton-foundation-global-poverty-entrepreneurial-charity/) By Milford Bateman in Jacobin Magazine **5\.** [**The American identity is de-linking from whiteness.**](http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/opinions/liu-race-poll/index.html) By Eric Liu in CNN  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4129083/why-dont-we-regulate-the-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4129083/why-dont-we-regulate-the-internet/"},"headline":"Why Don’t We Regulate the Internet?","datePublished":"2015-11-30T17:17:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:50.837Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4129083/why-dont-we-regulate-the-internet/","keywords":["Innovation","climate","Race","ISIS","America"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4129083/why-dont-we-regulate-the-internet/","name":"Why Don’t We Regulate the Internet?"}}]}] ```