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In the past couple of weeks there has been an increasingly organized movement to draft renowned copyfighter Lawrence Lessig to run for Congress in the California 12th district. Lessig himself is considering it and says, “that decision will be made soon.” One of the more interesting aspects of his possible run is that Lessig recently committed to switching gears to deal with governance and corruption issues instead of focusing on copyright and related issues. It goes without saying that I and thousands like me would love the idea of a guy like Lessig in Congress. There are many fine Congresspeople, but still relatively few that have a real handle on some of the most important issues of the day.

Lawrence Lessig reports that Illinois Senate candidate Jack Ryan has someone following and videotaping his opponent around the clock. Prof Lessig suggests that Ryan doesn’t understand the digital age; I would suggest that he understands it all too well.