http:// www.mantlethought.org/philosophy/edward-snowden-john-perry-barlow-and-new-american-frontier
EDWARD SNOWDEN, JOHN PERRY BARLOW, AND THE NEW AMERICAN FRONTIER
A Conversation on the Frontier in the History of a Whistle-Blower
Snowden leaked sensitive government surveillance documents “because,” he argues, “you know, we fought a war to have protections and to have rights like our constitution, like our fourth amendment, that says not only can you not search our communications without a warrant, but you can’t seize them in the first place.” By delivering this argument to John Perry Barlow, the Personal Democracy Forum, and the mass media audience of YouTube, Snowden builds a bridge between the rhetoric of the American Revolution and the rhetoric of the landscape that revolution inherited: the wilderness—the frontier.