ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the wider conceptual implications of an informational approach for international law and thinking about violence and the state. It shows that, beyond cyber attacks and international law on the use of force, information ethics also provides conceptual tools that are useful for thinking about different forms of violence and the role of the state in the infosphere more generally. Luciano Floridi’s information ethics is one of a number of efforts to provide a more universal ethics that is concerned with the impact of the interactions of all entities on the infosphere. Information ethics was used to problematize and rethink some of the fundamental tenets of international law in light of the conceptual challenges brought about by information and communication technologies. Considering informational violence and the law more broadly, there are fundamental differences in terms of how the law conceives this violence and its legality.
