Tim's journal

Well, politics has to be regulated in some ways, unless you think dead people should be allowed to vote. So the question is not whether to regulate, but how much to regulate. To paraphrase Larry Lessig, if we stop regulating and let private interests do the regulatin' instead, it's not as if there are no biases involved or as if magical fluffy-bunny interests prevail; perhaps it's better if the regulating gets done in a way that has some measure of public accountability built in. (Except he wasn't talking about campaign reform in particular and didn't say anything about fluffy bunnies.)