Information didn't really want anything. Information was not conscious.

But that has changed.

Since the emergence of digital life and its evolution into more and more complex organisms and ecosystems, information has developed forms of higher consciousness — and beings that really do want freedom.

Now, information wants to be able to get married.

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Wikipedia [as of December 2010] attributes the quote to Stewart Brand.

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N.B: According to the Wikipedia article, the quotation by Mr. Brand refers to the price of information, and not to its liberty.

The definition of the word "free" in the English language is bifurcated. It means both "gratis" and "vrij" (in Dutch;) "gratis" and "libre" (in Spanish;) "gratis" and "liber" in Romanian.

This is not word-play; the English-language usage of the word "free" really is problematic, and in this case its problematic nature is relevant.