Comments on: Blogging About Politics; Lessig for Congress http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/blogging-about-politics-lessig-for-congress/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/blogging-about-politics-lessig-for-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-46176 Dave Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:57:41 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/blogging-about-politics-lessig-for-congress/#comment-46176 Lawrence Lessig is an amazing person who truly seeks to establish permanent, wide-scale improvements for flawed parts of society. He helped to legitimize concerns that copyright protections were getting too strong and helped encourage creators to be bold in sharing their content through licenses like Creative Commons. As sad as it is to see him move on from intellectual property, I'm ecstatic to see what happens now that he is aiming his sights at corruption in politics. If you haven't heard of him, just know that <b>this is someone who gets things right</b> -- not in a political "he supports the ideas I support" way, but in a constitutional "this is what is both fair and beneficial to all of society" way. Lawrence Lessig is an amazing person who truly seeks to establish permanent, wide-scale improvements for flawed parts of society. He helped to legitimize concerns that copyright protections were getting too strong and helped encourage creators to be bold in sharing their content through licenses like Creative Commons. As sad as it is to see him move on from intellectual property, I’m ecstatic to see what happens now that he is aiming his sights at corruption in politics.

If you haven’t heard of him, just know that this is someone who gets things right — not in a political “he supports the ideas I support” way, but in a constitutional “this is what is both fair and beneficial to all of society” way.

]]> By: Johannes http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/blogging-about-politics-lessig-for-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-46035 Johannes Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:14:42 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/blogging-about-politics-lessig-for-congress/#comment-46035 This is a striking issue especially for an European like me. I never did understand, why the oldest modern democracy USA build its voting system on private money. Talking about a concept of justice in democracy it never came to my understanding, how such a donation system can bring up subdominant but interesting candidates. I am really critical on developments also in Europe which corrupt the public sponsored voting systems in most of European nations with an increasing number of donations from enterprises and other private stakeholders. I hoep that the US change its system before it influences the European to a - from my point of view - less democratic way of voting. This is a striking issue especially for an European like me. I never did understand, why the oldest modern democracy USA build its voting system on private money. Talking about a concept of justice in democracy it never came to my understanding, how such a donation system can bring up subdominant but interesting candidates. I am really critical on developments also in Europe which corrupt the public sponsored voting systems in most of European nations with an increasing number of donations from enterprises and other private stakeholders. I hoep that the US change its system before it influences the European to a – from my point of view – less democratic way of voting.

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