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The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.

~John Perry Barlow

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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

~John Perry Barlow

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The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.

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If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.

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I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.

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Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

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I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

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There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.

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It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 3rd, 1947

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