The internet is described as “transactions, relationships, and thought itself.” Its enemies are marginalized as “weary giants of flesh and steel.” Governments, argued Barlow, derive power from the consent of the governed, and the citizens of the internet never consented to anything of the sort. Here’s a section from the middle of the document: 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,
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