"You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear." Not knowing the context of this declaration, this statement gave me nightmares when I first read the text. In my view there is nothing more scary than an anarchical Cyberspace, which acts independently from the governance we know with no constraints put upon it. I believe that especially Cyberspace very much lies witin the borders of governments. It is what shapes the lives of the governed, there is hardly any citizen not directly affected by or involved in the creation of the Cyberspace, no matter if passively or actively. I argue that the Cyberspace is in NO way independent from "the governed" that the author talks about. The cyberspace, after all, is still somehow created BY the governed and nothing scares me more than the thought of a Cyberspace as a separate entity from us humans. The author talks about creating a world free from prejudice based on race etc. But who is this "we?" he is talking about? It is humans who have been socialised in a racist world. How does one controll which values and norms should be enforced in the cyberspace if nobody regulates it? Not every contributer in the cyberspace has the same values as the employees of EFF after all... Who decides what is "right"and "wrong"? It is naive to assume that every contributer just simply knows what "the right thing"is. However, I do oppose the Telecommunications Act of 1996 aswell. Especially the paragraph about marking ideas as an industrial product I agreed with. But I believe once these ideas are put into place through the cyberspace, they need to be regulated since that is when these ideas start to influence other people, since the cyberspace is not something one can avoid. The author keeps saying that the "cyberspace" didnt give any sovereignty to the governments of our time. But where does their sovereignty come from? Who makes the decision in "the cyberspace"? For me this declaration was very vague and nice in theory but not very logical in practice. I agree, that governments need to recruit AI experts, in a world where the cyberspace gained so much importance and domination. That way, the people governing it are no longer "uninformed powers". After having done more research on EFF, i think I now understand better what EFF wants. Before this research, I was genuinely confused since the author did not have any specific demands.