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Government,
Administrative/Regulatory

Feb. 16, 2018

Slouching towards an electronic frontier

Grateful Dead lyricist and internet activist John Perry Barlow passed away last week. So who will pick up where he left off?

Jason S. Leiderman

Law Offices of Jay Leiderman

Email: Jay@Criminal-Lawyer.me

"Jay" Leiderman is an attorney in Ventura who specializes in hacking and computer crime.

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Slouching towards an electronic frontier
Johhn Perry Barlow, a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, speaks at a protest in New York, Jan. 18, 2012 (New York Times News Service)

HACKING THE LAW

"Governments ... I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind ... [y]ou have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear."

-- John Perry Barlow, Oct. 3, 1947-Feb. 7, 2018

Barlow wrote that in response to the Communications Decency Act of 1996, known comm...

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