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The popular choice is not elected as president.
Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
Computer Scientist
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Rapid City
South Dakota
Larry Lessig
Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
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So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.
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Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
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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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A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
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Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
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One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that apolitical means you lose. It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.
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The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
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Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.
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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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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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I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
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Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.
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While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
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