Cybersecession

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Cybersecession is an approach to cyberlaw which promotes a legal map of Cyberspace featuring different Cyberspace "zones", with different legal status. According to this approach, the distinction between a "Matterspace" ("material space") with its Matterculture ("material culture") and a Cyberspace with its Cyberculture is not sufficient.

"Cyberspace" (with its "Cyberculture") itself may, in turn, refer to either the Matterspace-Managing Cyberspace (MMC) or to the Cyberspace-Managing Cyberspace (CMC). Cybersecession means it is only the MMC that needs privacy-related laws, while CMC is naturally "as free as human imagination" and so it shouldn't need any type of regulation.

Although CMC is still not legally defined, there are already cybersecessionist projects (like I2P and Freenet) which create a free Cyberspace zone similar to CMC (but only technologically enforced). They are collectively labelled "Cypherspace", as they are based on cryptography for hiding the identity of their users.