We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig

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Strong rec PythonicAlpha · 2014-01 · on “Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance”

I already do :( I think, it's in best interest of the people in power, that the campaign is so costly. When you look at the presidents of the last decades (I don't know to much US history, to go back to far), they all where already millionaires when they where elected. But you should better watch this one, I don't know if you know Lessig (I think, he is a real patriot): [this video] In our country, the campaigns are less costly, but until anybody comes to the top of any major party, he must be inwardly corrupted already. I see it this way, that nearly no current leading politician in our country is not already totally corrupted by money and power. I think, Mark Twain had this one right, but I don

Strong rec tim_hutton · 2015-01 · on “Ask HN: What can we do to show we don't support the response to Aaron Swartz?”

The root cause of this is the influence of money on our politicians. Symptoms include laws written for the rich and the corporations rather than for the people, causing the continued growth of inequality and a drag on the economy. Support Lawrence Lessig in his efforts to solve this root problem! [this video] He departs on the second of his New Hampshire Rebellion walks on Sunday.

Strong rec mtgx · 2017-01 · on “What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn”

All of that, plus tax software companies, such as Intuit lobbying against simplifying the tax code. [LINK] And once again we reach the conclusion that corporate lobbying and donations are the "root of all evil" in American politics, and everything is broken because of it. Larry Lessig has been right all along when he said this needs to be fixed before anything else [1]. Because once this is fixed, everything else should be a lot easier and a lot more in tune with what the People want [2]. [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] It's just so easy and so cheap for corporations to buy votes right now. Why wouldn't they do it, when the upside is billions of dollars and there's no penalty for it? They can literal

Recommends lifeguard · 2013-07 · on “Prism Break”

Is it a crime for a hungry man to steal bread? None of your proposed solutions would address his needs. America's government is so corrupt it is no longer democratic. Watch this video: [this video]

Recommends liscovich · 2013-07 · on “The entire US Code is now online in XML”

There is very little outright corruption in Congress. Special interests exert most of the influence through campaign contributions that are publicly disclosed. Larry Lessig has a great book on this: [LINK] . And here is the link to his TED talk on the same topic: [this video]

Recommends PythonicAlpha · 2014-02 · on “Privacy Protects Bothersome People (2013)”

That is a valid question. Good speech about it: Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim: [this video]

Recommends slantedview · 2014-05 · on “The Launch of the Mayday Citizens' SuperPAC”

I'd argue that Congress has not done a good job of anything (at least not anything that the majority of Americans would care about) because our motivations are not aligned. That's the point of this campaign - to remove the motivation for Congress to act in ways that our not in the best interest of the general public, by removing the financial incentives for them to do so. This TED talk from Lessig gives more background: [this video]

Recommends hayst4ck · 2023-02 · on “Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill”

Political movement related to this study: [LINK] A Ted Talk by Harvard Law professor and Copyright Law reform advocate Lawrence Lessig on the topic: [this video]