The Arab Spring seemed to confirm that free information liberates people

Evidence

These events appeared to not only validate the core belief of the Stewart Brand techno-utopians—“Information wants to be free”—but go even further: Information would make us free. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 262

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly connects to the Stewart Brand techno-utopian lineage Marx traces across earlier chapters, forming the climax of that belief system’s credibility.

Related

• The Arab Spring inverted the hacker slogan into the utopian claim that information liberates. (similarity 0.92)
• Silicon Valley platforms were credited with enabling the Arab Spring uprisings (similarity 0.81)