John Perry
John Perry
government force monopoly
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
politics firsts cyberspace
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
names ideas sight
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.
party waiting moral
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
bananas incompetence
Incompetence is a double-edged banana.
government sight magic
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?
winning adoption virtue
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
differences privacy shame
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.
caves criminals wonder
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
niece mean looks
I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
expression support cyberspace
I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
amish barn crisis curtain found help matt raise replace sarah shower word
We had a little crisis when Matt and Sarah had to replace their shower curtain liner and we said no. But we put the word out and someone found one for them. It's like the Amish - we help each other out. We raise a barn every week.
government targets
The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
dismiss either fantasy found futile half knew matter people pursue
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.