Would you consider the Internet a frontier?

I was comparing the internet to the Wild West, and I said, “The internet is the closest thing to a frontier that we have in our lifetimes.” @rocketsquid, disagreed and said it was not. What I meant, was that like the Old West, there is not a large government, or law presence on the internet. There is now, and they are slowly grabbing as much control as they can. (the destruction of the pirate bay and ninja video for example) The .com bubble can be compared to the gold rush… there are a lot of similarities between the two. @Rocketsquid, disagreed, and refused to call the internet a frontier. Even that it was an electronic one. I give you an excerpt from the Hacker’s Manifesto, only because I think it applies…. Even though it may not… I still think it sounds cool.

“This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.”