One Man's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace By John Perry Barlow 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.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. 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. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.