John Perry Barlow

Quotes

• “Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.”
• “The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.”
• “I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.”
• “It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.”
• “Copyright and intellectual property are the most important issues now. If you don't have something that assures fair use, then you don't have a free society. If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.”
• “Polyamory — that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1947-10-03 ) October 3, 1947, near Cora, Wyoming , U.S.

Died

February 7, 2018 (2018-02-07) (aged 70), San Francisco , California, U.S.

Occupation

Lyricist essayist

Alma mater

Wesleyan University

Period

1971–95 (lyrics), 1990–2018 (essays)

Subject

Internet (essays)

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Wikidata facts

Official website

homes.eff.org/~barlow

Image

John Perry Barlow 2012.jpg

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