A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Summary

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is an article^[1]. It draws 82 Wikipedia views per month (article category, ranking #30 of 125).^[2]

Key Facts

• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace authored John Perry Barlow^[3].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's instance of is recorded as article^[4].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's instance of is recorded as website^[5].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's instance of is recorded as document^[6].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported^[7].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's publication date is recorded as +1996-02-08T00:00:00Z^[8].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's publication date is recorded as +1996-00-00T00:00:00Z^[9].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0287500^[10].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's main subject is recorded as technolibertarianism^[11].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's work available at URL is recorded as https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence^[12].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's work available at URL is recorded as https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html^[13].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's title is recorded as {'lang': 'und', 'text': 'Declaration of independence for cyberspace'}^[14].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.'}^[15].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's reply to is recorded as Telecommunications Act of 1996^[16].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. 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.'}^[17].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted^[18].
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace's ELMCIP ID is recorded as 7634^[19].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include article^[4], website^[5], and document^[6].

Why It Matters

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace draws 82 Wikipedia views per month (article category, ranking #30 of 125).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[21]