History teaches us that social movements happen when people from different groups cease to see each other as fundamentally different and instead begin to include each other in their sense of shared experience and culture. As the Internet matures, it is developing its own shared culture, open to anyone, distinct from the analog world, and increasingly important enough to people that they are willing to defend it when it's threatened.
In short, the internet represents the greatest opportunity to liberate people’s talent and capacity, regardless of their birth or background, that the world has ever known.