Paper short abstract:

Dominant actors of CC follow the anarcho-capitalist doctrine, and promote technologies they consider free and democratic by nature. Anarcho-capitalism considers negative freedom as the main political value. Citizens seem to have opted for an unconditional surrender, instead of claiming more positive freedom.

Paper long abstract:

The object of this paper is to analyze the social and political action of the netizens. They see themselves as an essential part of a cloud computing environment in which they flow freely and enjoy the feeling of democratically participating in a world-wide socio-political life, particularly through the use of social networks. However, most dominant actors of cloud computing and networks' owners follow the anarcho-capitalist doctrine, and consequently promote the use of technologies they consider as free and democratic by nature. Anarcho-capitalism considers "negative freedom" as the foremost ethical and political value, a value they think of as inserted inside the human genetic code. Understood as a codified natural right, negative freedom can be extracted, computed, and used to create new algorithms. Therefore, computers and digital machines could automatically ensure negative liberty, and the object of social communities would be just its implementation by innovation and evolving technologies.

From a political point of view, what can be called citizenship 2.0 has to do with citizens delegating authority and power to the owners of the cloud computing environment in order to protect their private rights. In the era of post democracy, and on behalf of the new automatic and free of charge negative freedom, citizens of the Network seem to have unconsciously opted for an unconditional surrender to technocracy and anarcho-capitalism, instead of pursuing more "positive freedom", and a greater democratic participation in defining the borders of State jurisdiction in a post-territorial world.