You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. (John Perry Barlow)

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

John Perry Barlow

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