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Card III-9: JOHN GILMORE – The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Series III · Card 9 of 21 · THE MAILING LIST

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

JOHN GILMORE · TIME · 06.12.1993

Turn it over, answer, sign – free, no account.

Source

TIME, 6 December 1993, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, “First Nation in Cyberspace” (quoting Gilmore); earlier in Howard Rheingold, “The Virtual Community”, September 1993; confirmed by Gilmore on his website

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About the author

Entrepreneur, civil libertarian, and co-founder of the cypherpunks mailing list. A foundational figure in the culture that made Bitcoin possible.

The question on the back

How easily do you find a way when one is blocked?