Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.