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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The social organisation on the Internet as one without a centralised monopoly on the exercise of force (i.e. without a state). uncountable

Etymology

From cyber- + anarchism. First coined in 1994 by political science student Tomas Kriha in a paper titled Cyberanarchism.

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