shaping society through code

[A. Pagaltzis]

Hi Kragen,

* Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com> [1999-01-20 19:51]:
> The cypherpunks are the only people I remember hearing this
> concept from in the past [that our lives are shaped, regulated,
> by code, so we should manipulate code in order to manipulate
> the shape of society] -- although it is clearly true. The
> technical choices behind the Web, for example, clearly make it
> impossible for noncommercial speech to be widely heard,

which are these choices and which of their specific effects that
make it so? Can you expand on this with a few short notes?

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>