{"id":1611,"date":"2003-07-17T21:46:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T04:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/pandering-at-a-new-level\/"},"modified":"2003-07-17T21:46:28","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T04:46:28","slug":"pandering-at-a-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/pandering-at-a-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandering at a new level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe most recent comment from the Howard Dean campaign staff at the Lawrence Lessig<\/a> blog reaches a whole new level of pandering:<\/p>\n

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We’re all big Lessig fans on the Internet Team, and it has been, as many have said, an historic week. Lessig quotes EFF founder Mitch Kapor as saying “Architecture is politics.” For me, what is so powerful about this campaign is how the Internet is completely changing the architecture of politics. We talk alot about how the energy and momentum is bottom-up, but I think what sometimes gets lost is how the innovation is bottom-up and person-to-person as well (or e2e as Lessig might say). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we see that technology now enables politicians to do the same sleazy things in entirely new and innovative ways, and that’s progress.<\/p>\n

In the last election, voters were asked by exit pollsters<\/a> whether they were regular users of the Internet. Here’s how they answered:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n
Regular User of Internet <\/td>\nAll…<\/td>\nGore…<\/td>\nBush…<\/td>\nBuchanan<\/td>\nNader<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yes<\/td>\n 64%<\/td>\n 47%<\/td>\n 49%<\/td>\n1%<\/td>\n3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nNo <\/td>\n36%<\/td>\n 51%<\/td>\n 46%<\/td>\n 1%<\/td>\n 2%<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It appears that George W. Bush is our first Internet president.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most recent comment from the Howard Dean campaign staff at the Lawrence Lessig blog reaches a whole new level of pandering: We’re all big Lessig fans on the Internet Team, and it has been, as many have said, an historic week. Lessig quotes EFF founder Mitch Kapor as saying “Architecture is politics.” For me, … Continue reading “Pandering at a new level”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}