Did anyone bother to actually RTFA? (Score 1)

Declan's point is not about just writing code for your job and ignoring political activism (as implied by some of the posters who are only reading the summary and assuming Declan is being condescending). His article is about using your coding skills as your best weapon of activism. Zimmermann, Fanning, Berners-Lee, Fielding--all these guys took their skills and wrote the kind of West Coast Code that Lessig talks about. Each had an impact many orders of magnitude greater than the sum of all internet petition drives and email campaigns combined.

The question we should be asking is what are the next set of disruptive pieces of code we should be writing (while we still have the chance)?