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date: 17 February 2025

Cyberlibertarianismlocked

Cyberlibertarianismlocked

  • Lincoln DahlbergLincoln DahlbergCentre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland

Summary

Cyberlibertarianism, broadly speaking, refers to a discourse that claims that the Internet and related digital media technology can and should constitute spaces of individual liberty. Liberty here is understood as non-interference such that individuals are able to act and express themselves as they choose, and thus are self-governed, where interference is understood as most readily emanating from governments but also at times from corporations, particularly crony-capitalist ones. Various strands of this discourse have developed over the last few decades. These strands differ in the weight that they place on technology, markets, policy, and law for securing cyberspace as a space of, and for, individual freedom.

Subjects

  • Critical/Cultural Studies
  • Communication and Culture
  • Political Communication

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