A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Recorded in 1996 by Entropica & V.Tea and released by UK psychedelic club Megatripolis, with words written by John Perry Barlow (founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Grateful Dead lyricist) in response to the Clinton administrations' effort to censor and control the internet with the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996. Art and image credits: electricsheep.org alexgrey.com androidjones.com bugman123.com nez-art.com android.net thetemplateorg.com Transcript: (for the full statement, google this video's title) A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow 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. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you ...



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