Each of these can influence the others as well. Of greatest interest to Lessig are law and architecture. More significant are filtering mechanisms that can restrict access to sites. While these may seem desirable to allow parents, for example, to prevent their children from gaining access to disagreeable sites they could theoretically also be installed at higher levels of the computer chain, blocking access of certain sites for a large number of users. Privacy is a major concern on the Internet, but one of the difficulties in considering questions of privacy is definitional.
Complete anonymity is almost impossible.
Your ISP pretty much knows every step you take on the Internet, and can easily connect your name and address with your habits and interests. Relatively few users are aware that they are being monitored as they skip about the Internet. Cookies are automatically placed on a user's computer, without notification, unless users set their browser to either send a warning every time a cookie is offered, or decline them straight-out. The burden is on users, most of whom remain blissfully unaware of the ongoing rape of their computers and the collection of extensive private information by companies such as DoubleClick. Lessig convincingly argues that the government has not done a good job in these two areas, but he believes it imperative that the government do take an active role in regulating the Internet, in particular in determining its architecture.