John Perry Barlow Quotes

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

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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

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.

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

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.