Religious Sympathies Sayings

We are creating a world in which everyone can enter ... Del

We are creating a world in which all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or place of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express their beliefs, no matter how singular , without fear of being coerced by the silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement and context do not apply to us. They are based in this area. Here there is no matter.

Our identities have no bodies, so unlike you, we can not obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that our governance will emerge from the moral, enlightened self-interest and common good. Our identities may be distributed through many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our cultures recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope to be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we can not accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States have today created a law called the Telecommunications Reform, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, Tocqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us. I

terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to face it to yourselves. In our world, all the feelings and expressions of humanity, from the viles a las más angelicales, son parte de un todo único, la conversación global de bits. No podemos separar el aire que asfixia del aire sobre el que se baten las alas.

En China, Alemania, Francia, Rusia, Singapur, Italia y los Estados Unidos estáis intentando rechazar el virus de la libertad erigiendo puestos de guardia en las fronteras del Ciberespacio. Éstos podrán impedir el contagio durante un corto tiempo, pero no funcionarán en un mundo que pronto estará cubierto por los medios de transmisión de bits.

Vuestras cada vez más obsoletas industrias de la información se perpetuarían a sí mismas proponiendo leyes, en América y en cualquier parte, que asegurarín poseer the faculty of speech itself throughout the world. These laws declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind can create, can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to be made.

These measures increasingly hostile and colonial place us in the same situation as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to fight against the authority of a distant, uninformed powers. We declare our selves virtually immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. That is more humane and fair than the world your governments have made so far. John Perry Barlow


Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996

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Miguel Lama to discover this text.