This site offers a separate guide to how digital media are affecting political processes and institutions. Our profile on myths about the governance of cyberspace highlights cyberlibertarian claims that the web neither can nor should be regulated.
Proponents argue that the state is dead and that government per se is neither necessary nor useful.
It's most succinctly analysed in Richard Barbrook's incisive paper The Californian Ideology . While the cyberlibertarian ethos is broad, a key feature is the notion that Government needs to be kept not only out of the Internet but out of society as a whole. Personal conduct should not be regulated. Nor should commerce. Government should not impose content restrictions, ie should abandon attempts to manage offensive content or protect intellectual property.