Julian Assange and John Perry Barlow in a joint interview in 2013 on NSA Prism leaks:
"Snowden is a hero"
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/julian-assange-and-john-perry.html
Sounds like there are a lot of dots to connect about Barlow, just from reading his wikipedia page:
(TLDR: Tim Leary, Grateful Dead, Harvard, Facebook, Google, Cheney, Burning Man, more.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow
He wrote lyrics for the Grateful Dead
He was a frequent visitor during college to Timothy Leary's facility, and facilitated the first meeting between the Grateful Dead and the Leary organization
He claimed to have done LSD over 1000 times
He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation
He was involved in the social networking service, Orkut (owned by Google), that had 78% of internet users in Brazil
He served as western Wyoming campaign coordinator for Dick Cheney
He had a position on his County Planning and Zoning Commission in Wyoming
Barlow condemned Donald Trump in November 2016, characterizing him as a "thorough creep" and "toxic asshole"
He was one of the founders of the EFF-related Freedom of the Press Foundation
He was a Fellow Emeritus at Harvard Law School
He served on the advisory boards of Clear Path International, TTI/Vanguard, and Hypothes.is
He led a town hall meeting with Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey about "the current state of Practical Anarchy at Burning Man". Retired U.S Army general Wesley Clark attended Burning Man in 2013 and spent time with Barlow.
Barlow was also a self-ordained minister who performed baptisms
His wife died just before her 30th birthday from a heart arrhythmia.
He had been "a good friend and mentor" to John F. Kennedy Jr.
He was a friend and former roommate of Sean Parker, who created Napster and was the first president of Facebook.