John Perry Barlow: Internet has broken political system

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: June 3, 2010 2:48:21 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] John Perry Barlow: Internet has broken political system

John Perry Barlow: Internet has broken political system
By Gautham Nagesh       - 06/03/10 01:17 PM ET
<http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/101273-john-perry-barlow-internet-has-broken-political-system>

The deluge of information available on the Web has made the country ungovernable, according to Electronic Frontier 
Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow.

"The political system is broken partly because of Internet," Barlow said. "It's made it impossible to govern anything 
the size of the nation-state. We're going back to the city-state. The nation-state is ungovernably information-rich."

Speaking at Personal Democracy Forum in New York on Thursday, Barlow said there is too much going on at every level in 
Washington, D.C., for the government to effectively handle everything on its plate. Instead, he advocated citizens 
organizing around the issues most important to them.

Barlow also said that President Barack Obama's election, driven largely by small donations, has fundamentally changed 
American politics. He said a similar bottom-up structure is needed for governing as well.

"It's not the second coming, everything won't get better overnight, but that made it possible to see a future where it 
wasn’t simply a matter of money to define who won these things," Barlow said. "The government could finally start 
belonging to people eventually."

[snip]RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress>




-------------------------------------------
Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now
RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/
Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com