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Grateful Dead lyricist John Barlow, in a foreword to the indispensable handbook Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, describes the fans' playful ardor as "a religion without beliefs." That sounds about right. For most Deadheads, a concert was a church they attended not so much for the gospel as for the communion and community, the hymns and the incense. A giant mushroom cloud of hallucinogenics would lay over the crowd like a fuzzy blanket...
...supply. Better software tools may help check the worst abuses, but there will never be a switch that will cut it off entirely--not without destroying the unbridled expression that is the source of the Internet's (and democracy's) greatest strength. The hard truth, says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the EFF and father of three young daughters, is that the burden ultimately falls where it always has: on the parents. "If you don't want your children fixating on filth," he says, "better step up to the tough task of raising them to find it as distasteful...
Among those expected to guest lecture are John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tom Lemberg, chief counsel for Lotus Development, and Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT media...
...judging from the traffic on the Usenet newsgroup called alt.fan.bill-gates (but hardly a fan club), the last person in the world to whom Internet users would willingly yield control is the chairman of Microsoft. "The Net has a culture," says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Everyone who goes there takes on some of it. And that culture has a strong immune response to Bill Gates and Microsoft...
Joseph S. Steinfield, who heads the media law practice group at the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow (which The Crimson has consulted for advice on stories), says "reporters don't have rights to do what the rest of the world...