‘Cyberspace does not lie within your borders’
IDEA No 60
THE INDEPENDENCE OF CYBERSPACE
In 1996, John Perry Barlow, lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote a Declaration of the Independence of Cyperspace. It was a response to the US Government incorporating the internet within telecommunications law.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international organization that campaigns to preserve personal freedoms on the internet.
‘Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past ...
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