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 sovereignty where we gather." Ah, it all seems so long ago. In 1996 John Perry Barlow, a former cattle rancher, lyricist for a rock band, the Grateful Dead, and commentator on technology, posted these words in an online discussion group. His "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" was an 800-word credo which claimed that users of the internet inhabited a new world of creativity, equality and justice which would forever remain beyond the reach of existing governments. "We will create a civilisation of the mind in cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before," he concluded with a flourish.
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机译：工业界的政府，你们这些疲惫的肉身和钢铁巨人，我来自网络空间，即新的思维之家。我代表未来，请您过去，不要理会我们。我们中间不欢迎您。啊，这一切似乎已经很久了。1996年，约翰·佩里·巴洛（John Perry Barlow）曾是牧场主，摇滚乐队的抒情诗人，感恩的死者以及技术评论员，在网上发表了这些话。他的“网络空间独立宣言”是一个800字的信条，声称互联网用户生活在一个充满创造力，平等与正义的新世界中，这将永远存在于现有政府的能力范围之外。网络空间中的思想文明。愿它比你们各国政府以前的世界更加人道和公正。”他总结说。
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