The modern liberty in digital society: data power will set you free
Abstract
Contemporary society brings an immaterial life, in such a way that the citizen is digitized and learns to exchange information in a virtual network of planetary dimension. An inexhaustible world of information and communication opens up in front of us, however its price can be very high: our freedom. The theoretical model of “modern liberty” announced by Benjamin Constant, it`s used here like an analytical criteria of the digital liberty. Is modern liberty possible in digital society? Is it possible to understand the internet as a democratic society? Should we move towards another model of liberty? This article wants to answer these questions.
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