"Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"

"Governments of the Industrial World, 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 here. You have no sovereignty where we gather. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement and contexts do not apply to us. They are all based on matter and there is no matter here."

By John Perry Barlow