University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Minnesota Law Review 2015 Against Jawboning Derek E. Bambauer Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Bambauer, Derek E., "Against Jawboning" (2015). Minnesota Law Review. 182. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/182 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Minnesota Law Review collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Article Against Jawboning Derek E. Bambauer† Introduction ............................................................................... 52 I. The Rise of Jawboning .......................................................... 61 A. The Net’s Libertarian Trend .................................... 61 B. Backpage: The Internet’s Seedy Side ....................... 65 C. Data Retention: Building Your Permanent File ...... 69 D. Six Strikes: “The Cajole Set of Issues” ..................... 74 E. Network Neutrality: “I Am Not a Dingo” ................. 78 II. A Taxonomy of Government Pressures and Their Legitimacy ........................................................................ 83 A. Knuckling Under ...................................................... 84 B. A Taxonomy of Pressures ......................................... 87 C. Assessing Legitimacy ................................................ 92 1. First