Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
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John Perry Barlow
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About John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and an early fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by John Perry BarlowWe will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and tic…
They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to…
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.