I would stand around at parties on South of Market rooftops, my hoodie pulled up against the fog, and make proclamations like “There’s no real freedom until all information is free” and “The true democracy of the digital revolution spells the end of traditional power structures.” And when I sat down in front of my computer and wrote these things down, they got published and read by hundreds of thousands of people, and that somehow made them true. I was twenty-six years old in the new millennium and the whole world was changing and I was at the very forefront of it.
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