Do crypto folks who parrot Lessig's "Code is Law" maxim know that Lessig's point is that because code can powerfully regulate individuals it should, like regular law, be democratically accountable and therefore regulated? In many ways "code is law" is anti free speech.
@valkenburgh yea, not generally: medium.com/@lessig/code-m…
@valkenburgh I don't think it's anti free speech but agree people misunderstand it. A better starting point for what they want: moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/l…
@valkenburgh I think for the most part we can assume they don't - I wrote about it here: medium.com/q-blockchain/q…
@valkenburgh same thinking carries into his views on AI and regulating algorithms theverge.com/23929233/lawre…
@valkenburgh Lessig's "Code is Law" may carry that meaning but in the cypherpunk community "Code is Law" was interpreted in the style of Szabo's post "Wet code and dry" or Barlow's post "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/11/wet-co…