Decius wrote:

In addition to happily showing off blasphemous images of Christ, Lessig is also known as a digital communist (read the linked article for the substance of why he's called that) Lessig believes there should be no such thing as intellectual property rights -- patents and copyrights should be tossed. Lessig's anti-property theories give businesses and a lot of regular folks the heebie-jeebies. After all, if the government can strip you of your intellectual property, why can't it take away your real property?

This got picked up by Limbaugh. Lessig responds here. Don't miss the comments in his thread. If you've wondered how completely disingenuous the scoring of political points gets its hard to imagine the layers of reasoning getting more twisted up than this.

Tom, if you're reading RedState, may I recommend electroshock therapy? It's much less damaging to your higher brain functions.

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