Well, NetWatch are law enforcement and being against law enforcement makes you a hooligan and a villain. Except the law enforcement really isn't there to protect the people, are they? They're doing what they do to protect the major players, meaning the big corpos. At least that's my impression.

And if the law enforcement agencies are just glorified mercs with special privileges then I'm not sure they have any sort of moral high ground. Quite the opposite, really. The Voodoo boys are probably street trash for the most part, but at least they're relatively honest street trash. They are not the iron heel of an oppressive jackboot that steps on people by the millions.