Freedom of expression Issue1 #121593 Exploring the issue of freedom of expression in cyberspace. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Author: John Perry Barlow Cited by: David Price 1:57 PM 26 October 2011 GMT Citerank: (5) 121594Absolute freedom of expressionAbsolute freedom of expression should be permitted in cyberspace.959C6EF, 121704Cyberspace is a domain beyond government1198CE71, 121705Cyberspace has no elected government1198CE71, 121706Legal framework does not apply to flow of digital informationLegal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to cyberspace. They are based on matter, There is no matter in cyberspace.1198CE71, 121707Identities in cyberspace are beyond physical coercionIdentities in cyberspace have no bodies, so it is not possible to obtain order by physical coercion (upon which, at root, govenment relies).1198CE71 URL:
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Excerpt / Summary Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, 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.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions. |