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“... In an increasingly remote region of cyberspace called USENET, a highly committed group of volunteers works to help people they’ve never met with computer problems. These problems might be simple; some are quite complex. Yet these volunteers spend many hours helping lost cyber-souls find digital salvation. In this particular space, there are more than two million contributors a year, with more than forty thousand making more than 36 annual contributions, and about eight hundred making contributions just about all the time ...”

“... phenomenon of ‘faithless electors’ provides one of the openings that, according to Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman, can be used to thwart the democratic will. In How to Steal a Presidential Election they outline the dizzyingly complicated procedures – for the most part, legal loopholes – that unscrupulous MAGA Republicans could ...”

“... but it seems to me an entirely good thing that this issue is being fought out in public there. Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor who is a bit of a hero in the field of Internet law, contends that an extension of copyright to 70 posthumous years is not in the public interest, and has written a book to argue so, called The Future of Ideas.* In ...”

“... cent’ of her time raising money. One of the leaders of the campaign finance reform movement is Lawrence Lessig, who teaches law at Harvard and created a ‘SuperPac to end all SuperPacs, including this one’ to raise money for sympathetic congressional candidates. He supported Teachout in the race against Cuomo, and has proposed a system he calls ...”

“... they were dealing with a teenager. His lack of deference helped to open doors. At 15, he emailed Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford, with a list of suggestions for how to write the code for Creative Commons. ‘Good idea,’ Lessig responded. ‘Why don’t you do that for us?’ Swartz had been at the ...”