“Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.”

— John Perry Barlow

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About John Perry Barlow

Internet Activist • American

John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and Internet activist who co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Barlow was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, collaborating extensively with guitarist Bob...

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