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Could you define the 'cypherpunk vision of a sovereign Internet'? I am genuinely curious. Is it just a decentralized internet? I grew up watching anime like

• mirimir 8y ago
  It's more like an Internet that meatspace governments can't mess with. Like Tor .onion sites, I2P and other decentralized overlay networks. But ubiquitous. Here are some of the fundamental documents: "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" (1992) by Timothy C. May <https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html> https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html> "The Cyphernomicon" (1994) by Timothy C. May <https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt> https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt> "Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities" (1994) by Timothy C. May <https://nakamotoinstitute.org/virtual-communities/> https://nakamotoinstitute.org/virtual-communities/> "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (1996) by John Perry Barlow <https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence> https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence> Cypherpunks (2012) by Julian Assange et al. <http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/> http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/>