Editing John Perry Barlow (section)

===Internet activism===
[[File:Nicholas Negroponte and John Perry Barlow.jpg|thumb|Barlow with [[Nicholas Negroponte]]]]
In 1986, Barlow joined [[The WELL]], an online community then known for a strong [[Deadhead]] presence. He served on the company's board of directors for several years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/07/technology/john-perry-barlow-obit/index.html|title=Internet rights advocate John Perry Barlow dies|work=CNN|date=7 February 2018|access-date=8 February 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208014251/http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/07/technology/john-perry-barlow-obit/index.html|archive-date=February 8, 2018|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 1990, Barlow founded the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] (EFF) with fellow digital-rights activists [[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]] and [[Mitch Kapor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eff.org/about/history|title=A History of Protecting Freedom Where Law and Technology Collide|website=The Electronic Frontier Foundation|date=October 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104113542/https://www.eff.org/about/history|archive-date=January 4, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=February 7, 2018}}</ref>

As a founder of EFF, Barlow helped publicize the [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] raid on [[Steve Jackson Games]]. His involvement is documented in ''[[The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier]]'' (1992) by [[Bruce Sterling]].<ref>{{Gutenberg|bullet=none|no=101|last=Sterling|first=Bruce|year=1992|name=The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier}}</ref> EFF later sponsored the groundbreaking case ''[[Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service]]'' in support of Steve Jackson Games. Steve Jackson Games won the case in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kotaku.com/5801427/the-day-the-secret-service-raided-a-role-playing-game-company|title=The Day the Secret Service Raided a Role-Playing Game Company|first=Luke|last=Plunkett|date=May 13, 2011|access-date=February 7, 2018|work=[[Kotaku]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028051101/http://kotaku.com/5801427/the-day-the-secret-service-raided-a-role-playing-game-company|archive-date=October 28, 2016}}</ref>

In 1996, Barlow was invited to speak about his work in [[cyberspace]] to a middle school classroom at [[North Shore Country Day School]]. This event was highly influential upon the life of then-student [[Aaron Swartz]]: Swartz's father Robert recalls Aaron coming home that day a changed person.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaronswartzday.org/john-perry-barlow-recalls-a-12-year-old-aaron-swartz|title=John Perry Barlow Recalls A 12 year-old Aaron Swartz|website=Aaronswartzday.org|access-date=March 29, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329162813/http://www.aaronswartzday.org/john-perry-barlow-recalls-a-12-year-old-aaron-swartz/|archive-date=March 29, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/574421283431043072|title=John Perry Barlow|work=Twitter|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208090408/https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/574421283431043072|archive-date=February 8, 2018}}</ref> That year, Barlow also wrote<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/02/its-been-20-years-since-this-man-declared-cyberspace-independence/|title=It's been 20 years since John Perry Barlow declared cyberspace independence|magazine=Wired|last1=Greenberg|first1=Andy|access-date=December 25, 2021|archive-date=October 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002215953/https://www.wired.com/2016/02/its-been-20-years-since-this-man-declared-cyberspace-independence/|url-status=live}}</ref> "[[A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace]]", a widely disseminated [[creed]] for the Internet.

In 2003, Barlow met the recently appointed Brazilian Minister of Culture [[Gilberto Gil]] at the event Tactic Media Brazil to discuss the perspectives of digital inclusion and political participation, which in the following years helped shape Brazilian governmental policy on intellectual property and digital media.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://culturadigital.br/braziliandigitalculture/gilberto-gil-and-john-perry-barlow-will-meet-again-at-the-brazilian-digital-culture-forum/|title=Gilberto Gil and John Perry Barlow will meet again at the II Brazilian Digital Culture Forum|website=Culturadigital.br|access-date=March 29, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327195952/http://culturadigital.br/braziliandigitalculture/gilberto-gil-and-john-perry-barlow-will-meet-again-at-the-brazilian-digital-culture-forum/|archive-date=March 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/arts/music/11roht.html|title=Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved|date=March 11, 2007|work=The New York Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605045115/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/arts/music/11roht.html|archive-date=June 5, 2015}}</ref> In 2004, the two began working together to expand the availability and variety of Brazilian music to remix and share online. At the same time, as one of the "[[digerati]]", Barlow was among the first users of the invitation-only social network [[Orkut]] at its inception. He decided to send all of his 100 invitations to friends in Brazil; two years later, some 11 million internet users in that country (out of 14 million total) were on the social network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jruv/why-brazil-is-actually-winning-the-internet#.dk20AqxXD|title=Why Brazil Is Actually Winning The Internet|work=BuzzFeed|date=June 29, 2014 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017043349/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jruv/why-brazil-is-actually-winning-the-internet#.dk20AqxXD|archive-date=October 17, 2017}}</ref>