Few still maintain the utopianism of early cyber theo-rists like John Parry Barlow and Julian Dibbell, who believed that the Internet would remain free of government control. Indeed, many scholars today write of first and second-generation cyberlaw scholarship. We now know that the original virtualists-those first-generation cyberlaw scholars who believed virtual worlds and spaces were immune to corporate and state control-were wrong, as these days such interests and control things abound on the Internet and in cyberspace. But is this the whole story? Is there not something else we can learn about cyberlaw from the virtualists and their Utopian dreams? I believe so.
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