With the growth of the Internet, encompassing almost every aspect of our daily lives on a truly global scale, the line between citizen and "netizen" has become increasingly blurred, if not non-existent. Being first in most modern societies now practically demands living as second: agonizing trips to the DMV can now be replaced by a few deft clicks on a government website, news is more often consumed via pixels than in print, and an email account has become a practical and essential element for both business and personal communications. We live and breathe the Internet, through phones and laptops, through tablets and watches, even through our cars and soon our headgear. Yet there was a time when declarations of “independence from cyberspace” were made, denouncing the “colonization” efforts undertaken by the world's physical governments (or “tired giants of flesh and steel”), and seeking to keep the internet a place of free and unconstrained thought, untied by the archaic laws of the body. This, however, was also a time when the residents of cyberspace were few, homogeneous, and possessed...