John Perry Barlow

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

— John Perry Barlow

#around #censorship #internet #malfunction #routes

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

— John Perry Barlow

#having #hope #kind #like #love

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

— John Perry Barlow

#backbone #compass #gets #i #just

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bought #elite #highly #ideas #ignorant

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. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened

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

— John Perry Barlow

#asking #blinds #government #install #like

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. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#before #civilization #create #cyberspace #fair

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. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#any #codes #could #culture #ethics

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. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#degree #engage #felt #generally #i

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#anyone #boundaries #everyone #hear #his