Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.

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

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 principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every American should count equally. And if it does, Hillary Clinton should be the president of the United States.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.