“Barlow’s distaste for regulation combined with an early sense that the internet would change the world (and thus should be defended from the government by the people who use it) likely helped lay the groundwork for the unhinged growth of the corporate...
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“Barlow’s distaste for regulation combined with an early sense that the internet would change the world (and thus should be defended from the government by the people who use it) likely helped lay the groundwork for the unhinged growth of the corporate walled gardens we have today.”
John Perry Barlow Gave Internet Activists Only Half of the Mission They Need
He taught us to fight against a government that would constrain the internet. He left out corporations.
Slate Magazine (slate.com)
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“I can’t help but ask what might have happened had the pioneers of the open web given us a different vision—one that paired the insistence that we must defend cyberspace with a concern for justice, human rights, and open creativity, and not primarily personal liberty. What kind of internet would we have today?”
John Perry Barlow Gave Internet Activists Only Half of the Mission They Need
He taught us to fight against a government that would constrain the internet. He left out corporations.
Slate Magazine (slate.com)