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The Internet is indeed a technology of freedom - but it can free the powerful to oppress the uninformed, it may lead to the exclusion of the devalued by the conquerors of value. In this general sense, society has not changed much.

— Manuel Castells The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001)

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