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78. For example, John Perry Barlow has said, "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 sover-

eignty where we gather."  John Perry Barlow, "A

Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," February 8,

1996, <http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_

Barlow/barlow_0296.declaration>.

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