We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

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

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.

The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50 years ago as a central part of our constitutional tradition. So, under that principle, we ought to be applying the same standard today that I would have said we should have applied a year ago.