“The poets are losing”

by Dietsch on June 17, 2003

in Intellectual freedom, privacy, etc.

John Palfrey is blogging from the Internet Law 2003 Conference, at Harvard Law School. The title quote comes from a discussion of John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. As Palfrey explains:


One of the lawyers in the class says “it’s dated.”  Why, we ask?  “The poets are losing,” he says.

The poets are losing. I wonder just how “independent” cyberspace truly is.

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