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Barlow, until his death, served on the EFF's board of directors, where he was listed as a co-founder after previously serving as vice chairman.[49] The EFF was designed to mediate the "inevitable conflicts that have begun to occur on the border between Cyberspace and the physical world". They were trying to build a legal wall that would separate and protect the Internet from territorial government, and especially from the US government.[50]
In 2012, Barlow was one of the founders of the EFF-related organization the Freedom of the Press Foundation and also served on its Board of Directors until his death.[51] Barlow had several public conversations via video conference with fellow Freedom of the Press Foundation Board of Directors member Edward Snowden,[52][53] and has appeared in interviews with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks touting Snowden as "a Hero".[54]