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- From: Nick Christie <nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Cyberspace Declaration of Independence
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 13:26:07 GMT
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- [excessive cross-posting cut down]
- >: On 12-Feb-96 19:07:55, Dani_K said to All something about Cyberspace Declaration
- >: of Independence
- >
- >: >I did not write the following. I cannot take credit for it.
- >: >I am not crediting the original author, not because he doesn't
- >: >deserve the credit, but because this declaration belongs to
- >: >all of us and should be read as such. And I'll damn well
- >: >sign it. Send it to the president, post it where you see fit.
- >
- >: >------------------------------------------------------------------
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- >: >A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
- >: >
- >: >Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I
- >: >come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask
- >: >you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have
- >: >no sovereignty where we gather.
- >: >
- >: >We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address
- >: >you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always
- >: >speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally
- >: >independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral
- >: >right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true
- >: >reason to fear.
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- Yeah, tell it to them! Stupid governments, always interfering where they
- don't belong. Well, they can't touch us, right? No fu#$z*/{0%.xz
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- Nick
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