“The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” TechnologyInternetTreatsCensorshipRoutesMalfunction Author:John Perry Barlow
“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” GovernmentPoliticsTechnologySecurityInternetProtectWindowAskingBlindPrivacyTomsFree SpeechPeepingPowerful GovernmentPrivacy And Security Author:John Perry Barlow
“In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.” FirstsPoliticsSpaceInternetLocalsAmendmentsFirst AmendmentOrdinancesCyberspace Author:John Perry Barlow
“The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.” IdeasRealStatesGovernmentNationsLibertyIssuesEconomicInternetCreatingLibertarianZoneLibertarianismSovereignSeamless Author:John Perry Barlow
“When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.” InternetComputerFree SpeechCryptography Author:John Perry Barlow
“With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.” ThinkingUsedFireMiddleEventsDevelopmentInternetCaptureTechnologicalTransformingGutenberg Author:John Perry Barlow
“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.” MindHomePastAsksInternetWelcomeSovereigntyBehalfNew HomeCyberspace Author:John Perry Barlow
“We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.” WorldMayMatterBeliefSilenceInternetCreatingConformity Author:John Perry Barlow
“The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.” FirstsFieldsSeriousInternetBattleEngagedTroopsWikileaks Author:John Perry Barlow