Is digital citizenship an implied positive?

 I appreciated reading the Digital Citizenship Education Hanbook (Richardson, 2019).  This handbook from the Council of Europe's Digigital Citizenship Education Expert Group provides an introduction and guide with three sections.  The three sections are being online, well-being online, and rights online. 

This resource defines a digitial citizen as "someone who, through the development of a broad range of competencies, is able to actively, positively and responsibly engage in both on- and offline communities..."

I immediately paused when I read this.  To me it seems this statement assumes a positive connotation that a digitial citizen is automatically positive, thoughtful, and responsible. 

Is there no such thing as a good or a bad digital citizen? 

What do you call a person who is online or digital but not these things? 

It also made me think about country or community citizenship.  Especially after some circumstances in my neighborhood, it seems clear to me that not all citizens in my community are positive, thoughtful and responsible. 

The article discusses the 20 competencies for democratic culture which includes items such as valuing cultural diversity, civic-mindedness, conflist-resolution skills, knowledge and critical understanding of the self."  

The article ties these compentencies to 10 digital domains.These domains are:

Access and inclusion, learning and creativity, media and information literacy, ethics and empahty, health and well-being, e-presence and communications, active participate, rights and responsibilities, privacy and security and consumer awarenss.

Reading through each of these, I agree they are all very important when learning about digital citiizenship.  What do you think? What is the likelihood that all online produsers are digital citizens? How do we refer to those produsers that aren't so we can support them?

Richardson, J., & Milovidov, E. (2019). Digital citizenship education handbook: Being online, well-being online, and rights online. Council of Europe. Available at: https://rm.coe.int/16809382f9