Liberation by software | Eben Moglen
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/24/internet-freedomofinformation
For the last half-thousand years, ever since there has been a press, the press has had a tendency to marry itself to power, willingly or otherwise. The existence of the printing press in western Europe destroyed the unity of Christendom, in the intellectual, political and moral revolution we call the Reformation. But the European states learned as the primary lesson of the Reformation the necessity of censorship: power controlled the press almost everywhere for hundreds of years.
