Jackie Danicki

Larry Lessig in the Wall Street Journal:

This war must end. It is time we recognize that we can’t kill this creativity. We can only criminalize it. We can’t stop our kids from using these tools to create, or make them passive. We can only drive it underground, or make them “pirates.” And the question we as a society must focus on is whether this is any good. Our kids live in an age of prohibition, where more and more of what seems to them to be ordinary behavior is against the law. They recognize it as against the law. They see themselves as “criminals.” They begin to get used to the idea.

We are indoctrinating our kids with some frightening ideas about their place in this world, and what they are allowed to do with their lives - that autonomy is bad, that they cannot be trusted to create value, that value is to be hoarded.

Cheerful, I know.

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