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I'm an [[Internet]] user advocating for [[privacy]], [[free-speech]], [[cooperation]] and [[Liquid Democracy]].


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"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.

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Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

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We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.

Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

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We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

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We will create a __civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace__. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."

[[w:A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace|A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace]] by John Perry Barlow. Davos, Switzerland February 8, 1996


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