The Swarm

February 20, 2008

Larry Lessig considering run for Congress

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http://lessig08.org/

UPDATE:

After lots of thinking and advice, I have decided it does not make sense for the Change Congress movement for me to a run for Congress in CA12. We would have just over 30 days to introduce a district to me and to an idea. That would not be enough time to convince them to turn away from an extremely popular politician with 30 years of public service. And while anyone within the district would understand that, outside the district, the lesson would be that a “Change Congress” message has no salience or support. That would, in my view, harm the movement more than it would help.

I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so whether it makes sense to advance that movement by running for Congress.

Earlier: Prof. Lawrence Lessig at TED

Creative Commons benefit, September 2007:

“There are 140 million objects marked with this freedom and that’s the movement that’s necessary to change this world where…the world where Girl Talk is a crime…Get the lawyers the fuck out of the way and let the artists create.”


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