Reminds me of this classic bit: http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/7/3.txt On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Shaun O'Connor <capricorn8159@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > prophetic in many ways . methinks i will keep that as it so well > epitomizes the internet as it was at the time of it inception and what it > has become over the intervening years. > > > On 07/03/2015 09:50, Александр wrote: > > > 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 can build it, as though it were a public > construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows > itself through our collective actions. > > You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you > create the wealth of our marketplaces. 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. > > You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this > claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't > exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will > identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social > Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our > world, not yours. Our world is different. > > Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, > arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a > world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. > > We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice > accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. > > 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. > > 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 . Our identities may be > distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our > constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope > we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we > cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose. > > In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications > Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams > of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These > dreams must now be born anew in us. > > You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world > where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust > your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly > to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of > humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, > the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes > from the air upon which wings beat. > > In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, > you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at > the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small > time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in > bit-bearing media. > > Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate > themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own > speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be > another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, > whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed > infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires > your factories to accomplish. > > These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same > position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had > to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare > our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to > consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the > Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. > > 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. > > Davos, Switzerland > February 8, 1996 > > > -- > * PRIVACY IS A BASIC RIGHT - NOT A CONCESSION * > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/when-time-comes-we-need-be-ready-fight-tpps-secret-anti-user-agenda >