Lessig On Corruption and Reform

Brian Stretch sends us to the National Review for an interview with Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig. Lessig talks about money, politics, money in politics, and his decision not to run for an open seat in Congress. From the interview: "Lessig hates corruption. He hates it so much, in fact, that last year he announced he'd be shifting away from his work on copyright and trademark law... to focus on it... 'One of the biggest targets of reform that we should be thinking about is how to blow up the FCC.'"

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[mrbluze]

One of the biggest targets of reform that we should be thinking about is how to blow up the FCC.

Why stop at blowing up the FCC?

Re:Explosives

[mrbluze]

(err.. and before someone arrests me for that comment, I wasn't being LITERAL)

Re:Explosives

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Yes! Let's also blow up the other letters of the alphabet! After that, we target pictograms and heiroglyphics!

Re:Why not run it?

[blowdart]

As a subject of Her Majesty the Queen I've been watching the US race with some interest (and lots of spam from idiot US activists, thanks guys). I must admit to liking Obama not for any real reason, but because his slogan "Yes we can" is in fact a very British phrase taken from one of our most popular entertainers, Bob the Builder [bobthebuilder.com]. Who would have thought the slogan from a pre-school edu-tainment star would reach the heady heights of US political office?

Re:Explosives

[johannesg]

Why blow up a compiler in the first place? I'm assuming 'FCC' is some sort of relation to 'GCC'... I tried "fcc -v" but didn't get any meaningful results though. Maybe it is just not installed on my system?

Re:"Blow up" the FCC?

[sgt_doom]

Was he the dood who suggested eating that bag of Pretzels? If so, good show, old chap.....

Re:Why not run it?

[urcreepyneighbor]

Just out of curiosity, what are Obama's "radical" ideas on fixing the US?

CHANGE.

That didn't convince you? Okay, let's whip out the biggie:

HOPE.

See? Lord Obama has answered all of your questions! Praise Obama!

Re:Explosives

[tepples]

Why blow up a compiler in the first place? I'm assuming 'FCC' is some sort of relation to 'GCC'... I tried "fcc -v" but didn't get any meaningful results though. Maybe it is just not installed on my system?

FCC is a special compiler. If you compile the driver for certain wireless networking cards with FCC, it deletes the source code and leaves only a binary behind.

Re:You won't get the money out of politics...

[Kohath]

If you reduce the size of democratic government a non-democratic government will arise to replace it.

Therefore, all governments have always been exactly the same size.