Literary Usage
In the Fall Revolution series of science-fiction books, anarchist sci-fi author Ken Macleod riffs and puns on the expression by writing about entities composed of information actually "wanting", as in desiring, freedom and the scheming of several human characters with differing political and ideological agenda, to facilitate or disrupt these entities' quest for freedom.
In the cyberpunk world of post-singularity transhuman culture by Charles Stross, described in his books like Accelerando and Singularity Sky, the wish of information to be free is a law of nature.
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