{"id":34241,"date":"2016-02-09T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34241"},"modified":"2016-02-08T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T23:03:06","slug":"how-john-perry-barlow-might-have-revised-his-20-year-old-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/how-john-perry-barlow-might-have-revised-his-20-year-old-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"How John Perry Barlow might have revised his 20-year-old Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a short interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21690200-internet-idealism-versus-worlds-realism-how-john-perry-barlow-views-his-manifesto\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I probably wouldn\u2019t have imitated the grandiloquent style of a notorious former slave holder. And I would have been a bit more humble about the \u201cCitizens of Cyberspace\u201d creating social contracts to deal with bad behavior online. The fact remains there is not much one can do about bad behavior online except to take faith that the vast majority of what goes on there is not bad behavior. Yeah, I hate spam, and viruses, and worms, and surveillance [by America&#8217;s National Security Agency], but the fact remains that if you can censor one of these bad behaviors, you\u2019ve endowed yourself with the ability to censor almost anything you don\u2019t like online. This is not an ability I wish to extend to any existing government in the physical world. If we assert it, what\u2019s to prevent Saudi Arabia from doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>And I would make it more obviously clear that I knew that cyberspace was not sublimely removed from the physical world, with which it has exactly the same relationship that the mind has with the body: deeply interdependent but qualitatively different. I think that point often got lost.<\/p>\n<p>Over the decades, it has been continuously fashionable to make a straw man of my declaration, to hoist it up as the sort of woolly-headed hippie nonsense you\u2019d expect from techno-utopians like me. This is done largely by people who have never read it, or take a strong interest in believing that government is about to come stomping into town, there to \u201ccivilize cyberspace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a short interview in The Economist: I probably wouldn\u2019t have imitated the grandiloquent style of a notorious former slave holder. And I would have been a bit more humble about the \u201cCitizens of Cyberspace\u201d creating social contracts to deal with bad behavior online. The fact remains there is not much one can do about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,15],"tags":[459,186,58],"class_list":["post-34241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Uh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34242,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241\/revisions\/34242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}