Episode 21: How Cyberlibertarians Laid The Groundwork to Ruin the Internet

Aaron leads Robert and Rachel through the early days of the Internet. The gang talks about the worst people imaginable: Corporate stooges and Grateful Dead lyricists.

Music by Daniel Griggs

Sources:

• Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software, Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
• Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left: https://jacobin.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left
  
• Making common sense of cyberlibertarian ideology: The journalistic consecration of John Perry Barlow: https://jstor.org/stable/community.32839336
  
• Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for community: https://doi.org/10.1145/270858.270864
  
  
• Cyber Libertarianism - The Case for Real Internet Freedom: https://techliberation.com/2009/08/12/cyber-libertarianism-the-case-for-real-internet-freedom/
  
• Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence