Reply #5: I was just going to post a link to Barlow's Declaration

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A glorious bit of writing it is -- the first paragraph says it all:

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.

I was among those who's web page went black that one day (can't remember the actual date now) to protest the CDA, and I also had a page up in that massive 'ring of links' that Weiner tried to set up for the same reason. Finally, in the proto-webzine I was publishing at the time, I posted an editorial that included the 'seven dirty words' in a very large typeface. But somehow, even with all that, I'd missed that article from Judge Russell -- thanks for posting it.

And yeah, it all makes me kind of nostalgic for the days when that was the worst problem we seemed to have...