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John Perry Barlow Quotes


An American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties.
John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Here are some famous quotes by John Perry Barlow. 

In Cyberspace the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

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You do not know our culture our ethics or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

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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.