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.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.