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The Internet is wholly insensitive to geographic distinctions
citation on p 57
Norms function through the stigma that a community imposes; markets constrain through the price that they exact; architectures constrain through the physical burdens they impose; and law constrains through the punishment it threatens.
p 124
In some places you can choose to speak a language that only the recipient can hear (through encryption); in other places encryption is not an option.
p 125
Modified figure, pg 130
[K]eep the elements simple, and the compounds will astound.
p 145
It is not an offense to protect yourself rather than rely on the state…[s]elf-sufficiency is strength and going to the law a sign of weakness.
p 180
With the relative anonymity of cyberspace and its growing size, norms do not function well there.
p 236
Bloggers get authority from the citation others give them; that authority attracts attention.
p 242–243
…the measure of success for legislation (as opposed to missile tracking software) is not 100 percent. The question the legislature asks is whether the law will make things better off.
p 254
All of p 300
Barlow’ declaration of independence
Ideas, or beautiful rhetoric, aren’t political action.
p 305
…that is a difference in degree, not kind.
p 324