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John Perry Barlow
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3 October 1947 - 7 February 2018
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John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher and text writer for Greatful Dead, founder and vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization dedicated to researching social and legal issues related to cyberspace and defending freedom on the Internet. In 1969, he graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, with a degree in Comparative Religious Studies. In 1990, together with Mitchell D. Capor, he founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which
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John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher and text writer for Greatful Dead, founder and vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization dedicated to researching social and legal issues related to cyberspace and defending freedom on the Internet. In 1969, he graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, with a degree in Comparative Religious Studies. In 1990, together with Mitchell D. Capor, he founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which he chairs today. He has written and lectured on topics related to digital technology and society, and has authored numerous publications in Communication of the ACM, NeXTworld, Microtimes, Mondo 2000 and Wired. He is a recognized authority on computer security, virtual reality, and social and legal issues arising in a global network of interconnected computers.