Showing posts with label volunteerism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volunteerism. Show all posts

2012-02-01

Yochai Benkler on love, SOPA, wikiauthority and moral force

That is why Wikipedia played such a critical role: unlike all the other major sites that shut down. Wikipedia is not a company; Wikipedia, for this purpose, functioned as a mini-democracy within a democracy, where people who continuously volunteer for the public good came together to do something new for the public. Wikipedia represents a moral force that no commercial site can ever hope to replicate. 
                - Benkler, Seven Lessons from SOPA/PIPA...