>>321122Let us assume that the metaphor of the Wild West refers to the absence of formal legal procedural structure rather than the absence of all law enforcement, such that it makes sense for a movie about the "lawless wild west" to follow the adventures of a Federal Marshall apprehending an interstate commerce violation such as theft and illegal transport of cattle or stolen gold bullion, since the movie's portrayal of lawlessness would involve the Marshall performing warrantless search and seizures, summary field executions, provocation to violence and escalatory responses to provocation and other violations of law enforcement procedure identified with the settled East.
Therefore it would make no sense to rejoin to "Victorian London was not the Wild West" with "are you stupid look at the Jack the Ripper case that dude gutted all those prostitutes and got completely away with it and the only suspect to have been hanged was that succubus who almost certainly didn't do it."
Settled law and settled law enforcement have come to the internet just as Scotland Yard came to London. In both cases the issue is not absence so much as ineptitude. Treating the net as though it were the young frontier rather than the rotted heart of a decaying empire is incorrect framing.