One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.
John Perry BarlowRelying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry BarlowThe 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 Barlow