It's also using the word free in two different senses. Basically in the phrase "wants to be free" that's "free as in freedom, not as in beer." The meaning is that it's difficult to restrict the flow of information and you cannot reverse it. But then the author is claiming that information is free as in it doesn't cost anything. Then he's using the word information in two different ways, confusing "information economy" with data and then invoking some sort of magical osmosis by which an information economy doesn't involve money. Unpacking the chain of reasoning involved just in that single sentence, I see the following assumptions and arguments:

we have an "information economy"

information wants to be free

it doesn't cost anything to produce information

an information economy is one that doesn't cost any money to run

money is important to capitalism

without money capitalism doesn't work

since our economy doesn't require money to run, capitalism isn't working