Personal Democracy Forum Begins
May 18, 2007
| 9:08 AM
Author of "The World Is Flat," Tom Friedman is about to explain the subtitle of this conference "The Flattening of Politics."
Stanford University professor and leader of the Free Debates Coalition, Larry Lessig, opened the conference explaining how technology has democratized political speech. He emphasized how the ability to remix video like presidential debate footage is critical. He said if proprietary networks don't want to put the footage in the public domain like CNN has done, they should not be allowed to host debates.
He offered the analogy of putting putting voting booths inside Disneyland and the need to buy a ticket to get in to exercise the right to vote.
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