Lawrence Lessig

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As Machiavelli wrote in The Prince:

Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is indifferent partly from fear and partly because they are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.6

AOL: the forging of an estate of large-scale networks with power over users to an estate dedicated to almost perfect control over content.

America Online (AOL), it is the most cynical image of Time Warner's marriage to

But if the twentieth century taught us one lesson, it is the dominance of private over state ordering. Markets work better than Tammany Hall in deciding who should get what, when.