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A Republic (if you can keep it) with Lawrence Lessig

In this episode, I spoke with Lawrence Lessig, author, Harvard University law professor, and 2016 Presidential candidate. We spoke about his book, Republic Lost 2.0, where he describes the “green primary” where politicians are filtered to be better fundraisers than governors, and corrupted to be responsive to big donors rather than the people. Lawrence proposes a solution, that election receive public funding so that candidates may choose not to rely on big donors.

We also talk about the recent blows to net neutrality, and how the current state of technology, combined with the lack of competition, may lead to network providers deciding what content consumer can access.