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Nations and borders exist because different peoples have different values and different collective aspirations. Even the notion of an 'internet citizen' is not
by tkahn6 15y ago
Nations and borders exist because different peoples have different values and different collective aspirations.
Even the notion of an 'internet citizen' is not an entirely universal citizenship. How much interaction do people on HN really have with the Chinese internet populace or the Russian internet populace or the Arabic-speaking internet populace? There are entire internet subcultures which do not or hardly intersect.
I'm sure at some point in human history being a 'world citizen' will be possible, but we're not even remotely close to that at this point.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoIn fact, HN consists of Chinese, Russian and Arabic populace along with more traditional US/UK. Reading comments to any submission I sometimes play "spot the Russian" and more often than not I find one. HN perhaps have less interaction with Yahoo populace than they have with Russian populace. In internet, you have another axis orthogonal to citizenship - the services you're on.