We are creating a world
where anyone, anywhere,
may express his or her beliefs,
no matter how singular,
without fear of being coerced
into silence or conformity.

Ours is a world
that is both everywhere and nowhere,
but it is not where bodies live.

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.

excerpt from

"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"

written by John Perry Barlow in 1996