Talk:A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

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[edit] Misquoting

I'm thinking of removing "His response was 'we all get older and smarter'". In the context of how he is cited, I think it grossly misrepresents the idea of the quote. At this point in the wiki article, I strongly felt as if he retracted his declaration and ideas in it, even when the previous sentence states that this refers to his optimism; again in that context, optimism seems more like meaning "naïvety of the idea" instead of what he really means in the full Reason Magazine article from which he is quoted:

To clarify, in that article, he hasn't abandoned the idea, his optimism was in regard to not implicating oneself too much with politics (because he was seeing it as basically too much work for what you could get out of it) and instead try to bypass it. But now he sees his (social) libertarian ideas more in danger with how the general situation has evolved since ten years (DMCA, Patriot Act, etc) that he now sees mingling with politics a more imperative avenue than he considered before. His optimism refer specifically to the original idea that by doing their things and trying to bring into light issues without engaging head on into the political, this "political" eventually would just "see the light" and things would "sort themselves out". That was the optimism he was talking about, as clearly explained in the Reason Article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.81.15.136 (talk) 17:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)