The Arab Spring inverted the hacker slogan into the utopian claim that information liberates.
Evidence
These events appeared to not only validate the core belief of the Stewart Brand techno-utopiansāāInformation wants to be freeāābut go even further: Information would make us free. ā W. David Marx, Blank Space, 262
Categorization
- DEFINE: Flags the āInformation wants to be freeā provenance (Stewart Brand / techno-utopians) and its extension to āInformation would make us freeā ā a concept heāll later attack.