A light 30 minutes from Lessig which may relate to his new book.

He drops a simple solution here which is extremely light on details, and then directs viewers to go to the "fix congress first" website where its easy to join the movement and buy a tshirt but it appears to be hard to nail down exactly what change is being advocated so one can consider whether or not it will actually work in practice.

Previously these folks were advocating a constitutional amendment relating to the first amendment and campaign finance which I felt to be ill considered. Now things appear to be a bit mushy.

It would be neat if we lived in an ideal world where "special interests" could be prevented from spending truck loads of cash convincing people to think things without undermining their ability to advocate their views, but I don't see how these two things can be separated and I'm highly suspicious of the idea that there is an easy way to solve that problem that will work in practice.

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