A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Avicebron

Since this most almost certainly related to this discussion on cyberlibertarianism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952 Winner's analysis here https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/270858.270864 is a good read after TFA.

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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. This looks hopelessly naive now. Programmers need to eat. Cyberspace runs on physical electricity and data centers. Communication requires physical cables and/or physical transmitters and receivers. Chips are manufactured in a physical location. You need a physical place to live. Your kids need schools and playgrounds. The past 10 years if not longer have driven home the physicality of “cyberspace”.

gct

We thought this was so punk back in the day.