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Cyberspace does not lie within your borders.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
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.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
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.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
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.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
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.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)