The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.
John Perry BarlowI'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
John Perry BarlowI had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
John Perry BarlowWe are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
John Perry Barlow