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Cyberspace vs Cyberpolice - What's the difference?

cyberspace | cyberpolice |

As nouns the difference between cyberspace and cyberpolice

is that cyberspace is a world of information through the Internet while cyberpolice is a police force that patrols the Internet or cyberspace.

cyberspace

English

Noun

(wikipedia cyberspace)
  • A world of information through the Internet.
  • (by extension) The internet as a whole.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.}}
  • (science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1984 , first = William , last = Gibson , authorlink = William Gibson , title = Neuromancer , page = 51 , passage = Cyberspace . A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding... }}

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    cyberpolice

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A police force that patrols the Internet or cyberspace.
  • * 1995 , Howard Stern, Miss America
    • The cyberpolice on Prodigy had busted me. Evidently, you can call the authorities from a button on your computer and complain when profanity is being used.
  • * 2004 , Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall, Iain Borden, The city cultures reader
    • The cyberpolice and their elite masters are living under the sign of virtual catastrophe (that is, anticipating the electronic disaster that could happen)...
  • * 2004 , The Economist
    • Syria is not the only Arab state with a hyperactive cyberpolice .