25 years ago today, the internet declared its independence - for better and for worse

Joshua Benton, NiemanLab, 08 February 2021

With tech utopianism and tech hubris more intertwined than ever before, John Perry Barlow's cyber-libertarian premise resonates in the policy debates of today. At the time, Barlow's declaration read as an outcry against a bold new generation of leaders who'd marry the countercultural ambitions of the 1960s to the tech-fueled exuberance of the 1990s. As he wrote...

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