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The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.

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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

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Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

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The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

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Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 3rd, 1947

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