cyberanarchy

cyberanarchy

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ anarchy

Noun

cyberanarchy (uncountable)

1. An anarchic state or condition on computer networks.
   • 1998, John Kerry, The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security

     If we want to avoid a cyberanarchy, we need a cyberorder to emerge, and emerge quickly.

   • 2002, Toshiyuki Konō, Christoph Paulus, Harry Rajak, Selected legal issues of e-commerce (page 12)

     The stress on cyberanarchy disguises the non-democratic features of my dream.

   • 2004, Helen Fay Nissenbaum, Monroe Edwin Price, Academy and the Internet (page 232)

     […] he is aiming not so much for cyberseparatism as cyberanarchy.

Related terms

• cyberanarchism
• cyberanarchist