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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 18 2015, @01:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-will-the-wikipedia-article-say? dept.

Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is now the Committee Chairman for Lawrence Lessig's campaign to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States:

"Larry's run for President is different," said Wales, who founded the free-access, free-content encyclopedia in the early 2000s. "He's crowdfunding his campaign instead of seeking out rich donors. He's showing people that we can change the rigged political system."

Both long-time supporters of Internet freedom, Wales and Lessig have stood side by side on previous issues, most notably in opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012. Wales' day-long Wikipedia blackout protesting SOPA influenced other major Internet players to follow suit and is credited with helping to sink the legislation.

"I'm deeply grateful for Jimmy's support," said Lessig. "We both believe in the power of the people to push back against special interests. He's a valuable player in this fight to end the corrupting role of money in politics once and for all."

"The Internet community came together to fight back against SOPA and we were successful." Wales said. "Now we're behind Lessig to fight for citizen equality. When you light up the Internet, anything is possible."


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:05PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:05PM (#224431) Journal

    Well, nominally speaking, SuperPACs aren't by the candidates. They're legally supposed to be at an arm's length, with neither giving direction to the other. They're supposed to be issue organizations that happen to like certain candidates.

    That's the idea. The one that lead the supreme court to approve them in Citizens United. The reality we actually see is that every other candidate engages in a woeful breach of ethics. Yay America.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:09PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:09PM (#224432)

    The difference between that theory and practice was best explained by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert [npr.org] when they were totally not coordinating with each other on national TV.

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