The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

John Perry Barlow
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  1. Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable. - Stefan Molyneux

  2. Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas... - John Farndon

  3. Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth. - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. - George Orwell

  5. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people. - Suzy Kassem

More Quotes By John Perry Barlow
  1. Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

  2. New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

  3. But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

  4. I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

  5. Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

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