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When the X.500 revolution comes, your name will be lined against the wall and shot.

— John Gilmore

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The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

If you're watching everybody, you're watching nobody.

How many of you have broken no laws this month?

Why should self-interested companies be permitted to shift the balance of fundamental liberties, risking free expression, free markets, scientific progress, consumer rights, societal stability, and the end of physical and informational want? Because somebody might be able to steal a song? That seems a rather flimsy excuse.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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