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
I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
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We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
The more you've got, the shorter it feels.
The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
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.
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.