The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
-- John Perry Barlow
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
-- John Perry Barlow
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
-- John Perry Barlow
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
-- John Perry Barlow
"I don't know what it is about this particular moment in human history which lends itself to the sanction of miscellaneous and casual cruelty," says cyber-guru John Perry Barlow, vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cyberspace, he says, "has a way of making us feel like other people are informational artifacts. If you cut data, it doesn't bleed. So you're at liberty to do anything you want to people who are not people but merely images."
-- John Perry Barlow
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