John Perry Barlow Quotes

American - Writer | October 3, 1947 - February 7, 2018

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

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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

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

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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

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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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They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.

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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

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Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

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The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

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Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

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