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We’re not convinced Internet policymaking can be effectively guided by something as short as the “Declaration of Internet Freedom” issued by Free Press and other groups. But since they’ve used a term of such import to free people everywhere — "Internet Freedom" — with an ambiguity that could pave the way for more government intervention, we felt compelled to offer our own statement of principles. Our vision emphasizes what truly matters to Internet policymaking today: the process of technological evolution, not the end result.
Neither declaration is anywhere near as poetic as the “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” (John Perry Barlow, 1996), "Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" (Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth & Alvin Toffler, 1994), the “Libertarian Vision for Telecom and High-Technology” (Adam Thierer & Wayne Crews, 2001), or The Future and Its Enemies (Virginia Postrel, 1998) — but at least these two new Declarations are shorter, and thus more clearly highlight the ongoing "conflict of visions" over Internet policy among groups claiming the same mantle: Internet Freedom.










