From the article: "A decade-plus of anthropological fieldwork among hackers and
like-minded geeks has led me to the firm conviction that these people are
building one of the most vibrant civil liberties movements we’ve ever seen. It
is a culture committed to freeing information, insisting on privacy, and
fighting censorship, which in turn propels wide-ranging political activity. In
the last year alone, hackers have been behind some of the most powerful
political currents out there." Read more