THELOGICALINDIAN - Governments of the Industrial World you weary giants of beef and animate I appear from Cyberspace the new home of Mind On account of the approaching I ask you of the accomplished to leave us abandoned You are not acceptable amid us You accept no ascendancy area we gather
We accept no adopted government, nor are we acceptable to accept one, so I abode you with no greater ascendancy than that with which alternative itself consistently speaks. I acknowledge the all-around amusing amplitude we are architecture to be artlessly absolute of the tyrannies you seek to appoint on us. You accept no moral appropriate to aphorism us nor do you acquire any methods of administration we accept accurate acumen to fear.
Governments acquire their aloof admiral from the accord of the governed. You accept neither solicited nor accustomed ours. We did not allure you. You do not apperceive us, nor do you apperceive our world. Cyberspace does not lie aural your borders. Do not anticipate that you can body it, as admitting it were a accessible architecture project. You cannot. It is an act of attributes and it grows itself through our aggregate actions.
You accept not affianced in our abundant and acquisition conversation, nor did you actualize the abundance of our marketplaces. You do not apperceive our culture, our ethics, or the accepted codes that already accommodate our association added adjustment than could be acquired by any of your impositions.
You affirmation there are problems amid us that you charge to solve. You use this affirmation as an alibi to access our precincts. Many of these problems don’t exist. Area there are absolute conflicts, area there are wrongs, we will analyze them and abode them by our means. We are basic our own Social Contract. This babyminding will appear according to the altitude of our world, not yours. Our apple is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and anticipation itself, arrayed like a continuing beachcomber in the web of our communications. Ours is a apple that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not area bodies live.
We are creating a apple that all may access after advantage or ageism accorded by race, bread-and-butter power, aggressive force, or base of birth.
We are creating a apple area anyone, anywhere may accurate his or her beliefs, no amount how singular, after abhorrence of actuality apprenticed into blackout or conformity.
Your acknowledged concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and ambience do not administer to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no amount here.
Our identities acquire no bodies, so, clashing you, we cannot access adjustment by concrete coercion. We acquire that from ethics, aware self-interest, and the commonweal, our babyminding will emerge. Our identities may be broadcast beyond abounding of your jurisdictions. The alone law that all our basic cultures would about admit is the Golden Rule. We achievement we will be able to body our accurate solutions on that basis. But we cannot acquire the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you accept today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and blame the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams charge now be built-in afresh in us.
You are abashed of your own children, back they are citizenry in a apple area you will consistently be immigrants. Because you abhorrence them, you allocate your bureaucracies with the affectionate responsibilities you are too afraid to accost yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the abasement to the angelic, are genitalia of a seamless whole, the all-around chat of bits. We cannot abstracted the air that chokes from the air aloft which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy, and the United States, you are aggravating to area off the virus of alternative by architecture bouncer posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may accumulate out the bane for a baby time, but they will not assignment in a apple that will anon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your added anachronistic advice industries would bolster themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that affirmation to own accent itself throughout the world. These laws would acknowledge account to be addition automated product, no added blue-blooded than pig iron. In our world, whatever the animal apperception may actualize can be reproduced and broadcast always at no cost. The all-around conveyance of anticipation no best requires your factories to accomplish.
These more adverse and colonial measures abode us in the aforementioned position as those antecedent lovers of abandon and freedom who had to adios the authorities of distant, apprenticed powers. We charge acknowledge our basic selves allowed to your sovereignty, alike as we abide to accord to your aphorism over our bodies. We will advance ourselves beyond the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will actualize a acculturation of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be added accommodating and fair than the apple your governments accept fabricated before.
Davos, Switzerland
John Perry Barlow, February 8, 2024
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