Re: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - We all should read it
Actually, I have to disagree here. According to Wikipedia, "Anarchy is a society without a government. It may also refer to a society or group of people that entirely rejects a set hierarchy". This is exactly what happens inside Bitcoin network -- the nodes do not have any central authority to govern them. Each chooses to be online or offline. Nobody can coerce the nodes to run or not.
Well if we get too technical then Bitcoin is not a society and political definitions don't really apply to it. Also keep in mind that even though many disagree with this definition, Anarchy is always associated with chaos and lack of order which are not true about Bitcoin.
What makes you so sure that John Perry Barlow voted?
Not voting is a vote too, it is a vote of approval of whatever others choose.Barlow was also pretty involved in politics and with politicians. He even supported and campaigned for the war criminal Cheney.
About paying the salaries, unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done, unless going to jail for not paying taxes. What would you expect? For all people which blame regimes and their corruption to accept to go to prison for not paying taxes, in order for you to not be able to say that they should not complain since they are paying their salaries?
They also pay the corrupt traffic cup that pulls them over in fear of being shot. This is exactly why corruption gets worse every year in United States.P.S. As I said "Independence of Cyberspace" is just pretty words when US sees the Internet as a military organization and runs NSA that is under the Department of Defense and has a 4-start general at its head. Barlow's group EFF can talk about privacy acts all they want and fly their protest blimp over NSA's data center but it won't change a thing since they are not attempting to change the system
