Internet law uk

The Internet regulations are from country to country different. Although the Internet was invented by the Americans, the World Wide Web was developed by a British scientist, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. The Internet law, as such, does not exist as a separate law book or regulation. Moreover, Internet law is buried within many other laws, which were extended to cover the Internet as well. The situation in the UK is no different from the rest of the world.
The enforcement of local Internet law and judicial decisions became evident with in the UK with the Bulger injunction, where in 2001 two minors charged with a murder of a toddler were supposed to be protected by that injunction, their identities kept secret and their whereabouts hidden. None of it worked. Within minutes, on web sites outside of UK jurisdiction any and all information was made available, furthermore, a vigilante group organized a sign-up sheet asking for a death sentence, another similar but less radical web site received 2200 signatures for their petition.
Internet law is flawed, because it cannot be enforced worldwide. On the other hand, it would be more flawed if any country could impose own local laws on people in another country where such laws would not apply. For instance, there is a law in the town of Bournemouth in the UK, where it is stated that “lunatics, idiots, deaf and dumb” individuals cannot run in local elections. I bet you could name dozens of politicians we would not have seen running some of the most important countries. But leaving the fun stuff aside, if the Internet law in the US is based and buried within existing laws, where the laws were extended as it was necessary, where do you start to look if there are law books dating centuries back, extended and amended to this day?
On the other hand, UK is very slow in amending any laws, like a dismissed case in 2005 showed. A teenager lost his job and started a DoS (denial of service) attack against his former boss. He sent five million e-mail messages and broke down the computer network of his former employer. The applicable fifteen year old law, called Computer Misuse Act, has no provisions against such attacks and the judge ruled that the servers were actually there to receive e-mail messages and they cannot prosecute someone who did exactly what he was supposed to do, although in exaggerated manner. The tragic fact is that since then, nothing regarding the change of such laws happened.