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I read some earlier books of his that espouse a global internet content monitoring scheme for the sake of enforcing copyright. Draw your own conclusions.

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feel free to quote that earlier book you read. Otherwise we can't really properly draw a conclusion can we? Lessig's campaigns and initiatives have been positive from my experience, especially the current one he's working on, to you know, fix government corruption.

Hmm, I tried to find some damning quotes but I couldn't find any. I think I was skimming the book "Code" and read parts out of context that made it seem like he was arguing in favor of something, when he wasn't.

Well, looks like I was wrong. Thanks for challenging me.

Indeed, Lessig has been less than totally radical but he's one of the strongest voices in the public discourse in FAVOR of cultural freedom. He wrote the book "Free Culture", he took on the entire government in the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act trying to stop the retroactive extension of copyright (he failed to stop it though), and he is the primary founder of Creative Commons.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more respectable person when it comes to critiquing the problems with Copyright. Lessig is completely opposed to the copyright maximalists and deserves great honor for all his valuable work.

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