The Mage circles have rebelled, believing the Templars have become too strict, too zealous in their duties, and too quick to slaughter those who stepoutofline.
As he says, a lot of people will freak out this, but its another step along the same lineof waste reduction as what we hoped The Times would eliminate (someday) by having copyeditors or writers tag their work once at the point of inception and bake that stuff into the files that flowed downstream from there.