[...] This absence is evinced by the fact that the
figure of the citizen is rarely, if ever, used to describe the acts of crypto-
anarchists, cyberactivists, cypherpunks, hackers, hacktivists, whistle-blowers,
and other political figures of cyberspace. It sounds almost outrageous if not
perverse to call the political heroes of cyberspace as citizen subjects since the
figure of the citizen seems to betray their originality, rebelliousness, and
vanguardism, if not their cosmopolitanism. Yet the irony here is that this is
exactly the figure of the citizen we inherit as a figure who makes rights claims. It
is that figure that has been betrayed and shorn of all its radicality in the
contemporary politics of the Internet. Instead, and more recently, the figure of
the citizen is being lost to the figure of the human as recent developments in
corporate and state data snooping and spying have exacerbated.
La crítica hecha a la perspectiva hacker por estar definida en oposición a lo gubernamental, no considera estos espacios donde lo hacker se ha adelantado al estado (Ley De Software Libre), pensando derechos nuevos y nuevos escenarios de lo convivial en nuestra relación mediada por la tecnología. Por supuesto, no podemos deshacernos del contexto urbano en el que nos desemvolvemos y de la presencia totalizante del estado y las instituciones, por lo cual interactuamos con él, pero no estamos definidos exclusivamente como personas, en dicha interacción (por afirmación u oposición).