Yes, indeed!!💥
And his death was suspicious...
They hated him for his belief in freedom of the Internet.

"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear."
--John Perry Barlow

PS: Jr. wanted "George" to go completely online at some point. He probably had good talks with Barlow about that. And today we have "George News." No coincidences.🙂😉

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freedom....Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.'"

Wow.....a varied background, for sure! A poet, political activist, founding member of Freedom of the Press Foundation, as well as lyricist for the Grateful Dead, among other things! He supposedly met JFK Jr. in 1978, when Jaqueline Kennedy made arrangements for her "troublesome son" to work as a wrangler at Barlow's cattle ranch (Bar Cross Ranch) in Wyoming for six months. He was 18 and evidently "acting out" doing teenage stuff and I guess Jackie was trying to rein him in a bit. Can't imagine what it was like to live under a microscope as he did!

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