Yarrr… Larry Lessig on his Pirate Ship!
His blistering TED Talk went live today: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html
I have had a number of unusual encounters with Larry Lessig over the years, from Creative Commons activism, to co-teaching a class at Stanford Law School, to a non-profit mission to Clinton in the White House.
(Details and more quotes and photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/8618123848 )
TED quotes:
“132 Americans gave 60% of the SuperPAC money in the 2012 election.”
“The funders are not The People. This is a corruption. There’s one piece of good news; it’s bipartisan, equal-opportunity corruption. It blocks the left on a whole range of issues we care about (climate change, sensible health care, food safety, financial reform). It blocks the right too, as it makes principled arguments of the Right increasingly impossible (smaller government). Here’s the bad news; it’s a pathological democracy-destroying corruption.”
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