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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 th

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 to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

krapp 4y ago
... a sentiment as impotent as it was naive.
jjulius 4y ago
This has, "If you write in your FB status that FB doesn't have permission to use your pictures as outlined in their ToS (which you already accepted) then they have to comply with your request," vibes.
- capableweb 4y ago
  There was a time when what Barlow wrote spoke to a lot of hackers out in the world. Maybe that's not how the world is today, sadly.
  - ajhurliman 4y ago
    Gonna be honest, it’s kind of cringey. I don’t think the sentiment is disagreed with here, but the fact that it sounds like an overzealous dungeon master.
    - capableweb 4y ago
      I'll give you honesty right back: back then, most of us either were overzealous dungeon masters or had one as a close friend.
mindslight 4y ago
This would ring a lot more true if we weren't talking about centralized websites that will enjoy the excuse to demand your government identity, adding to the surveillance databases that power their real business. And until tech culture moves on past this evolutionary dead end, governments will continue to think that the "Internet" is just another thing to be micro-regulated.

krapp 4y ago

... a sentiment as impotent as it was naive.

jjulius 4y ago

This has, "If you write in your FB status that FB doesn't have permission to use your pictures as outlined in their ToS (which you already accepted) then they have to comply with your request," vibes.

capableweb 4y ago
There was a time when what Barlow wrote spoke to a lot of hackers out in the world. Maybe that's not how the world is today, sadly.
- ajhurliman 4y ago
  Gonna be honest, it’s kind of cringey. I don’t think the sentiment is disagreed with here, but the fact that it sounds like an overzealous dungeon master.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    I'll give you honesty right back: back then, most of us either were overzealous dungeon masters or had one as a close friend.

mindslight 4y ago

This would ring a lot more true if we weren't talking about centralized websites that will enjoy the excuse to demand your government identity, adding to the surveillance databases that power their real business. And until tech culture moves on past this evolutionary dead end, governments will continue to think that the "Internet" is just another thing to be micro-regulated.