Ivor Tossell of the Globe and Mail asks this question while providing a very good summary of the recent copyright conflict in Canada.
I’d offer that digital rights have been important for sometime but the maturation of social news and the web have enabled and empowered all sorts of people.
A sense of democratic worth [...]
The tremendous mismanagement of the DMCA introduction in Canada by Minister Prentice and the impressive critical and organized response of Canada’s public has garnered the attention of many. Among them, Cisco, for some reason:
No matter what side of this issue you fall on, the reaction demonstrates the power of Web 2.0 to disseminate information [...]