Lawrence Lessig Quotes - Page 5

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• But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.

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  Silly, Technology, Thinking

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• All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Motivation, Inspiration, Internet

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• Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

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  Creativity, Perfect

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• I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

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  Lawyer

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.304, Penguin

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• Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.

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  Wall, Giving, Campaigns

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• The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to eliminate it. I'm not quite convinced we should eliminate it completely. I think it's important to have a final check be somebody other than the Supreme Court. But given that it's there, we should take it seriously. And taking it seriously says they should exercise their judgment according to the moral values, the principles that are part of our constitutional tradition today. And those principles say equality.

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  Exercise, College, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Here's what we [Americans] need: a 30 second you tube video of some guy at a party constantly checking out everyone else at the party, while he pretends to be speaking to the other person. We're the other person. The guy are the politicians. And the distraction is the corruption: We need a Congress that can afford to talk to us. For at least one drink or so.

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  Party, Guy, Needs

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• We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

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  Principles, Ought

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the archaic idea is actually winner take all, because the principle of "one person, one vote" is a principle that was introduced as a fundamental principle in American law in 1962, long after states had moved to "one person, one vote."

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  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

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  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

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• I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

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  America, Views, Insane

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• The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every American should count equally. And if it does, Hillary Clinton should be the president of the United States.

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  Democracy, President, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

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  Real, Problem, Plausible

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• There's no reason for the electors to overrule the popular choice.

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  Choices, Reason, No Reason

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.

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  Commitment, Issues, Interesting

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• There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

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  Ideas, People, Would Be

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.

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  Zero, Believe, Average

  "'Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You': Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

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  Ideas, Essentials, Cracks

  ""Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You": Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Citizens

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• The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

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  Choices, President, Vote

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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