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Yochai Benkler explains SOPA

Cory Doctorow at 7:08 pm Tue, May 8, 2012

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The Guardian: Blueprint for Democratic Participation from The Guardian and The Paley Center for Media on FORA.tv

Here's Yochai Benkler -- author of Wealth of Networks, one of the most important books written about how the Internet changes society -- describing the fight to stop SOPA with laser clarity and precision, cutting through the DC/media consensus that "Google killed SOPA" or "Wikipedia killed SOPA" and showing instead how the ecosystem of people who care about networks collaborated to do the unprecedented.

The Guardian: Blueprint for Democratic Participation (via Michael Geist)

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  • theophrastvs

    nice summary (corresponds well with ars-technica’s take with some added hand-waving)  but what’s the hell is the “buzzing underneath [their] butts”?!

  • theophrastvs

    nice summary (corresponds well with ars-technica’s take with some added hand-waving)  but what’s the hell is the “buzzing underneath [their] butts”?!