id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-eff-org-945 A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundation .html text/html 1343 127 69 A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundation Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. 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. ./cache/www-eff-org-945.html ./txt/www-eff-org-945.txt