Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Session: Open Data, Open Government
Note by Ken Laureys:
Lawrence Lessig — Open Government
corruption now is not personally worse but the institutional malaise is worse
rich have captured government (crony capitalism)
cost is high Congress regulates to extort the regulated industries
cant even get easy things
eg, copyright 20 year extension
eg sugar not 10% by 25% sugar per day = balanced diet
eg global warming 1000 peer researched all agreed consensus vs. 53% in popular media wrote that it was consensus
destroys trust (eg drug approval of Rx from firms who donate to AMA)
eg. doubled telecom PAC money to Congressmembers who switched on immunity bill
NEED more than every 4 years
CHANGE CONGRESS beta
1 No $$ PAC
2) earmarks
3) public finance
4)
change-congress.org
alcholic dependency is like Contressional dependency on $$ = solve the first problem 1st
corruption now is not personally worse but the institutional malaise is worse
rich have captured government (crony capitalism)
cost is high Congress regulates to extort the regulated industries
cant even get easy things
eg, copyright 20 year extension
eg sugar not 10% by 25% sugar per day = balanced diet
eg global warming 1000 peer researched all agreed consensus vs. 53% in popular media wrote that it was consensus
destroys trust (eg drug approval of Rx from firms who donate to AMA)
eg. doubled telecom PAC money to Congressmembers who switched on immunity bill
NEED more than every 4 years
CHANGE CONGRESS beta
1 No $$ PAC
2) earmarks
3) public finance
4)
change-congress.org
alcholic dependency is like Contressional dependency on $$ = solve the first problem 1st
