From the article: "On the anniversary of John Perry Barlow's issuing 'A Declaration
of the Independence of Cyberspace,' a response and alternate call to action. Seventeen
years ago today, on February 8, 1996, John Perry Barlow sent out his manifesto
"A Declaration of the Independenceof Cyberspace," a statement of the core belief of many
cyber-libertarians that governments should have no authority on the Internet.
That belief may seem quaint to many of us today, when the separation between
the real and the virtual is growing ever fuzzier. And yet the Declaration
remains a fairly accurate representation of the views of many of the
anti-government voices on the Internet." Read more
