The virtual state / Notice to Federal Data Summit
Let us imagine that the media networked society to be regarded as virtual state. Of course this would be a virtual state with completely different rules and objectives as the state structure the physical world. The founding of this nation should not even be proclaimed in a solemn ceremony, even though its inhabitants, or number of users and its economic power would be greater than that of most nations on earth.
constitutional lawyer would certainly raise many legitimate objections to such an idea: Would such a state under international law even possible? Would other states to recognize such an individualistic Union? Who would be the president of this virtual state? In what location would be the seat of government? If this state ever established a written constitution? And if there is a constitutional would this be democratic? Would such a state of danger to go out?
It would also, we argue, there were already experimental (and failed) the creation of states, such as the Austrian artist Edwin Lipburger, who exclaimed in 1976 with a ball-shaped house, the "Republic Kugelmugel" in Wiener Neustadt. The project book launched from a violent dispute in Austria. Because of official arrogance Lipburger was finally convicted three years later to 10 months in prison. Today, the building as a carnival-oddity at the Vienna Prater. Other start-ups such as the environmental organization Greenpeace, a Political Namely the goal to block oil drilling in the North Sea. Greenpeace occupied a 25 meter wide and 20 meters high rock, 450 kilometers off the coast of Scotland, and called the state attributes "Wave Country". The self proclaimed "data haven" was indeed the surf of the sea but can not withstand the loss of data was carried out by the liquidation of its provider. Today this Waveland only of an "imaginary space".
quite different but it would behave with the new virtual state:
He decided not to declare themselves, because there is nobody who could call him. He dispenses with a central organizational structure, because its rhizomatic structure invisible makes it invulnerable. It offers maximum freedom, even if freedom threatened by Google's monopoly on power in the network. This State omitted even insisted to claim officially physical land, except for the cooled locations of the servers. Unfortunately, Germany
has produced not a single Internet start-up that could compete in the category of Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and similar Internet majors. Why you consider this country now, where is is exactly the "red line" that Google & Co can not be exceeded. It almost seems like a desperate attempt to cloud to miss a Din standard. So while the physical limits of the States, through rivers, Mountains, or were formed along the old battle lines knows, this virtual state limit.
Moreover, even if the user of the virtual state are at the same time a citizen of a physical nation-state would not necessarily mean that this is in the public interest such as Germany are committed.
Had this state, only a fiction? No, because this virtual state would not be in contrast to the real, but the physical, because without a doubt are the electronic systems are not fictitious or unreal world, but act directly in the physical world - with sometimes tragic consequences, such as was the financial crisis. Many people have lost their physical homes. Just Facebook and Twitter would retain them as a "virtual home" until the last credit card would be confiscated.
we are about so ago that this "virtual state" with all those who have the physical nation-states turned their backs, now it begins to colonize the physical world. New rules would establish its technical qua appearance. Obsolete national and regional laws of the old nation-states would be as ineffective as the dance of an Indian medicine man at the arrival of the first English galley.
has just found the Federal Data Summit in Berlin. This policy is in Germany on a national data protection regime and the self-regulation by the market. This must be seen as capitulation! Even if it will shed the virtual colonial masters a few crocodile tears, one can assume that it will leave them at the end of the day quite cold.