互联网中介商越来越吸引各国政府注意力,其原因正是因为他们处于商贸、社会甚至是政治三者交汇的十字路口上,而政府则试图规制其境内所发生的事情。政府试图管制借全球网络而获赋权的芸芸众生而受挫,为此转而将互联网中介商视为一条管制的新途径,试图利用这些中介商,使之兼具审查员和警方的功能,以此要求中介商删除网络上政府不喜欢的信息,并提交政府需要的信息。 Internet intermediaries are increasingly attracting the attention of governments because precisely because they are at the crossroads where commerce, society and even politics converge, and the government is trying to regulate what is happening in their country. The government’s frustration over the mass of empires empowered by the global network has turned the Internet intermediaries into a new avenue of regulation that attempts to exploit these intermediaries to make it both an examiner and a police officer Ask an intermediary to delete information that the government does not like on the web and submit the information the government needs.