Dear 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.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks.
I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.
You have no right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have reason to fear.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power or station of birth.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us.