A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (by John Perry Barlow, 1996)


	A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (by John Perry Barlow, 1996)

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8-16-2008 11:07 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e2ca2ae8-2ff8-41bd-a1c4-f165f86dd674/AE5DFC75-8E84-4935-B1D0-C6DE24BA9BCA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html" href="http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html" style="font-size: 11px;">homes.eff.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html"><FONT size="5" face="AGaramond">A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html"><P><FONT face="AGaramond">by John Perry Barlow &lt;barlow@eff.org&gt; </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html"><P><FONT face="AGaramond">February 8, 1996 </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html"><P><FONT face="AGaramond">Davos, Switzerland </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace&oldid=227360364" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace&oldid=227360364" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace&oldid=227360364"><B>"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"</B> was an influential early paper on the applicability (or lack thereof) of <A title="Government" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government">government</A> on the rapidly-growing <A title="Internet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet">internet</A>. It was written by <A title="John Perry Barlow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow">John Perry Barlow</A>, a founder of the <A title="Electronic Frontier Foundation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</A>, and published online <A title="February 8" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8">February 8</A>, <A title="1996" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996">1996</A> from <A title="Davos, Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davos%2C_Switzerland">Davos, Switzerland</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace&oldid=227360364">The Declaration sets out, in sixteen short paragraphs, a rebuttal to government of the Internet by any outside force, specifically the United States. It states that the United States did not have the <A title="Consent of the governed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed">consent of the governed</A> to apply laws to the Internet, and that the Internet was outside any country's borders. Instead, the Internet was developing its own <A title="Social contract" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract">social contracts</A> to determine how to handle its problems, based on the <A title="Ethic of reciprocity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity">golden rule</A>. 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