A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John Perry Barlow

Last updated on November 18, 2024

Governments have no moral right to rule cyberspace nor the methods of enforcement necessary to rule
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours.
Calls the cyberspace “an act of nature”
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
Was created against the Telecommunications Reform Act in the United States

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