The Technology Revolution

A Campaign for Liberty Manifesto

This is what a technology revolution looks like: New innovators create vast new markets where none existed previously; Individual genius enabled by the truly free market the Internet represents routes around obsolete and ineffective government attempts at control; The arrogant attempts of governments to centralize, intervene, subsidize, mi cromanage and regulate innovation is scoffed at and ignored. The revolution is occurring around the world. It is occurring in the private sector, not the public sector. It is occurring despite wrongheaded attempts by governments to micromanage markets through disastrous industrial policy. And it is driven by the Internet, the single greatest catalyst in history for individual liberty and free markets. The true technology revolutionaries have litt le need for big government and never have. Microsoft ignored the government for years and changed the world by leading the PC revolution. Today, companies like Apple -- which has created several completely new markets out of whole cloth (iPhone, iPad, iTunes, and iPod) -- are changing the world again, successfully adopting visionary new revenue models for movies, songs and games, and launching an

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pp economy” responsibl

e for creating almost half a mill ion jobs in the United States s ince

the iPhone was introduced…

All in less t han 5 years, and all without government permission, partnerships, subsidies, or regulations! Technology revolutionaries succeeded not because of some collectivist vision that seeks to

regulate “fairness”, “neutrality”, “privacy”

or

“

competition” through coercive state actions

, or that views the Internet and te chnology as a vast commons that must be freely available

to all, but rather because of the same belief as America’s Founders who understood that

private property is the foundation of prosperity and freedom itself. Technology revolutionaries succeed because of the decentralized nature of the Internet, which

defies