One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

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

I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

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

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.