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Meaning of cybertarian | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A member of the cybertariat class.
    Marxism, neologism
  2. Someone who applies libertarian ideology to the Internet; a follower of cybertarianism.
    neologism

Examples

“I've been doing a lot of research particularly in India but in other Asian countries too on, if you like, the new cybertarians who are growing up working in an offshore call centers and software development and so on.”
“Coders allied to cyber workers' rights also play a role, creating tools to aid cybertarians in information sharing and self-organizing. The ingenious Turkopticon, for example, is a web browser plugin that overlays features on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform, helping workers who do pay-per-task clickwork to avoid poor quality jobs, delayed payment, and outright wage theft (Irani & Silberman 2013).”
“John Perry Barlow is a "cybertarian," a form of libertarian. In other words, he believes in bottom-up, decentralized solutions to the dilemmas that arise in cyberspace.”
“We're in the midst of fevered discussions about communications and security. Cybertarian campaigners want to stop collusion between corporations and governments to intercept citizen chat; attention-grabbing adolescents at Anonymous want to disrupt murderers who dislike mockery of their principal prophet and the gilt-edged grown-ups in national security services want to listen in on plans to revenge such blasphemy.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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