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The Fight for Cyber Thoreau: Distinguishing Virtual Disobedience From Digital Destruction

The Fight for Cyber Thoreau: Distinguishing Virtual Disobedience From Digital Destruction
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Author(s): Matthew D. Crosston (Bellevue University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 17
Source title: Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7909-0.ch059

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Abstract

This analysis sheds light on where cyber disobedience fits in to larger society positively and does not deserve to be summarily thrown in with all types of illegal cyber acts. Making these legal delineations does not solve all of the problems a state will face in the new cyber age. But they will go a long way in helping a democratic state honor its foundation of civil liberties and freedom and avoid becoming a perpetuator of virtual hyperbole and digital panic. In so doing, it guarantees the people greater freedom for themselves while also having greater confidence in the fairness of their own government. This, in place of the chaotic, ambiguous, and uninformed legal and political environment governing cyber action today, would be a dramatic improvement.

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