The Net Routes Around Censorship

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore, 1993

One of the founding principles of cypherpunk culture. The internet was designed for resilience — if one node goes down, traffic finds another path. Gilmore saw that this same property applies to information itself.

Block a site. A mirror appears. Delete a post. It’s already been archived. Burn a book. The PDF survives.

CyberSpace does not forget. It just reroutes.