[cryptome] Re: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
- From: Shaun O'Connor <capricorn8159@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:14:18 +0000
nice find, I like that very much, and so true of how the ignoratti think
of the hacking community..;-)
On 07/03/2015 17:58, Aftermath wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
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