Epistemic community

An epistemic community is a group of people with values and ideals in common, probably sharing instructional capital, but not necessarily any real sense of mutual protection, or social capital. A faction is an example. The ideology of "virtual community" implies that epistemic communities can and should behave with all the violent force and brutality of real police protecting real communities - this is related to sysopism, an ideology that creates a priestly hierarchy to force its episteme on all others, or else practice social exclusion methods on them.

See w:epistemic community for a view approved by sysop power structure.