User:Hipatia~enwiki/Free knowledge

Knowledge and freedom are strictly connected. Human beings learn, teach and make use of their knowledge only and if they are free to do it. But, in the last years, while the emerging networked and digitized society is providing new possibilities for the growing of human knowledge, artificial boundaries are tightening the possibility to enjoy this potential (i.e.: copyright and patent law in the way they are shaped nowadays). As a consequence of that, "free knowledge" is increasingly being used as a flag by those who fight (like hipatia - http://www.hipatia.info) for the right of human beings to freely access, use and spread knowledge, according to human nature.