the Net routes around damage

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John Gilmore's line that the Net treats blockage as a fault to route around - resilience as a design temperament.

The full 1993 quote names censorship as the damage; the engineering half is simply true (dynamic routing exists to survive failures), while the political half has aged into an open argument. Both halves get invoked, often without noticing they differ.

Also known as: interprets censorship as damage

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