what i call the inverted lessig. i envision it as a gymnastics move. each of these ways that we regulate society also turn out to be ways we can make civic change. so we know that we can make change through law. we know when the supreme court decides that recognition of equal marriage is the law of the land, that's a powerful social change that affects everybody. but it turns out that you can also make change by changing norms, by changing markets, by changing code. so let me give you a couple of examples. of all the things in the world that i'm pissed off about right now, widespread government surveillance is pretty high on my list. as far as explaining to you i help run a network of 1,400 journalists and translators in 120 countries. all of that communication between me and the people that i work with is subject to surveillance by the nsa, and we've decided that being willing to surveil those communication networks is a price that we are okay with paying in exchange for preventing ourselves from terror. and as much

this is what lessig puts forward in the book. i'm trying to envision the inverted lessig. each of these ways that we regulate society also turn out to be ways that we can make big change. so, we know that we can make change through law. we know that when the supreme recognitions that of equal marriage is the law of the land, that is a powerful social change that affects everybody. you could alsot, make change by changing norms, by changing markets, by changing code. let me give you a couple examples. of all the things in the world that i am christophe about right off rightm pissed now, widespread government surveillance is pretty high on my list. i help run a network of 1400 journalists, translators, in about 120 countries. all of that communication between me and the people i work with is subject to surveillance by the nsa. we have decided that, being willing to surveillance munication network -- communication network is a price that we are willing to pay in exchange for preventing -- protecting ourselves from terrorism. as much as i would hope the obama administration mi

larry lessig at harvard has a wonderful way to talk about the choice. he says we can protect the past from the future or the future from the past. i want to protect the future from the past. in the future, we're living longer, healthier lives. we have access to more stuff. i say bring it on. i see a lot of attempts to protect the past and protect the current companies, the current job holders. i look at the battle that uber fights, city after city, country after country. city after city in the u.s., they've got to go to war to roll out this service that you and i value a lot. my guess is you've taken a few oobers in your day providing labor income for people who didn't need anything more than access to a car and a smartphone. i'm all in favor of that especially in this climate where a lot of people would like more opportunities to earn work with labor. >> if we get away from the doom and gloom and talk about opportunities, how it's benefiting human beings, not as workers but in terms of all the services we want to engage and enjoy, where are the placous

you want to know who run as a message candidate this year, lawrence lessig. that was a message campaign. on the other side arguably lindsey graham admitted he had no chance of winning, no real intentions of winning, but he hoped that by participating in the process he could change the message, he could bring the focus of the campaign back to the issue of national security, which he thought were the most important issues for his party and the thing on which he wanted the party to focus as it was picking a new president. those are message campaigns. that's not what bernie sanders has been doing this year. bernie sanders has been running a campaign this year not to get some point across, but to win the democratic party's nomination for president. he's trying to win. back to 2014 and 2015 when sanders was talking about running before he ever got in he made it clear from that beginning from before the beginning that his intention was to get in and try to win the nomination full stop. there's no use in running if you're not going to try to win. from bernie sanders

so this guy on the screen is larry lessig. he is probably the single less successful presidential candidate of 2016. he briefly decided he was going to make a run based on campaign finance reform before bernie sanders made a run. nobody's really known for its being probably the deepest that any of us have run into. he wrote a book incredibly important for those of us interested in technology and social change called code. this book basically says there are multiple ways that we as a society regulate behavior. we are used to thinking about regulating behavior through thought. we pass a law and say you can't do that anymore or you are going to do this instead. we are all pretty good at that. we know how bousquet made. we understand why one might argue over a lot in the past or not. but the big observation in this book is that laws are only one of four major ways that we regulate society. we also regulate through norms. none of you that have jumped up and started arguing back with me during this talk here or maybe you guys are fi

lessig government is better. -- less government is better. we continue to spend more money than me taken. itin.n we take and as a business owner i look to the future of employees. everyone should become their own entrepreneur. >> you've got to love the track. you've got to love what you are doing. if you do that, then good things happen. i believe the biggest issue facing the country right now is government is too big, tries to do too much, and spends too much. way,government paves the they are taking away my ability to spend my money the way i want to spend my money. irs.ocate abolishing the use this as a template for a national consumption tax. if illuminating the corporate limited and the corporate tax does not give us millions of jobs in this country, i do not know what will. [indiscernible] i tell the truth. -- tos really hard to do find someone willing to tell the truth regardless of the consequences. the libertarian party will be on the ballot in all 58. -- in all 50 states. [cheers and applause] chair sarwark: microphone number one? m