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> As my colleague Ethan Zuckerman said, “It’s obvious now what we did was a fiasco, so let me remind you that what we wanted to do was something brave and noble.”

Can we find role models who were successful at achieving their "brave and noble" social goals? We can draw upon centuries of negotiation between labor and rent seekers.

> Your generation does not need to surrender to some sort of techno-determinist future. Let’s try and “rewire” (Ethan’s term) the Internet.

The article mentions SOPA but not TPP/TTIP/TISA/RECP which will "rewire" the Internet, computing infrastructure and more. Caution is warranted when listening to rewirers bearing gifts.



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