cyberlibertarian

noun

A proponent of cyberlibertarianism.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nouncyberlibertarian (plural cyberlibertarians)

plural cyberlibertarians

  1. A proponent of cyberlibertarianism.

    Whether it springs from the fear of government or hope for the wisdom of humankind, the cyberlibertarian ideology seeks a revolution.

    1997, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, volume 12, page 217
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    Geographically, the cyberlibertarian position had the advantage of being rooted in US political culture, where US institutions were the key vector for wide deployment of Internet innovation.

    2002, Marc Raboy, Global media policy in the new millennium, page 237

    For the Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, cyberlibertarian and a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, freewheeling file-sharing and community-building seemed like an anticorporate be-in.

    2009 August 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Hop on, Pop”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2021

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