According to Byte, hackers are the best hope for the free world as you can read in this article by Shannon Cochran:

Spooks in the Machine

Quoting from it:

As far as I can tell, the best hope for the free world lies in the hands of a tribe of passionate computer programmers. These are the people who brought us PGP and GNU/Linux; they are the ones who dedicate their considerable reserves of wit and skill to circumventing the brutish impositions of the censors
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