Mary Anne Franks on Section 230
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The Connection Between Barlow and the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow wrote the so-called declaration of the independence of cyberspace in 1996. He was a former Grateful Dead songwriter who later became an internet civil liberties pioneer. The document is meant to be an explicit invocation of Thomas Jefferson's original declaration of independence, says David Frum. It isn't about justifying government's power or about the idea of mutuality and respect in that sense, it's about sayingGovernment stays out and then we're going to get paradise.
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