About A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is a document of naive reaction. It discounts physicality, by which it hollows itself out and becomes unable to say anything about the ethics and metaphysics.
It discounts physicality, giving no consideration to the actual physics of how the cyberspace is supported. Cyberspace won't become independent from nation states as long as the ISPs are not. The ISPs won't become independent as long as their cables are on sovereign land and their signals go though sovereign airspace.
By rejecting physicality it hollows itself out.
It tries to imitate the Declaration of Independence of the US, but it barely lists any grievances with weight. Physicality of grievances is what weighs on people's conscious.
It wants a new governance like the Communist Manifesto, yet it has neither a sharp criticism of the existing governance nor a vision of what the new one should be like. Physicality of the governance is what supports criticisms and visions, and what spurs the mass into action.
It is a flimsy document which cannot support a coherent political worldview. I recommend Lars Doucet's book review series about Henry George's Progress and Poverty as a substitute.
