John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlowis an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation. As of 2016, he is a Fellow Emeritus at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he has maintained an affiliation since 1998. He...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
I 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.
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.
The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.