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Code=Law

Topics discussing when software code acts as a form of policy, what Lawrence Lessig , author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace would call (US) "East-coast-code meets West-coast-code".

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New topic area: Code=Law

In his book, CODE and other laws of cyberspace, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig introduced the idea that software code acted as a form of law. If code is a form of law that regulates us, why must we treat that code as simply another product? Should we not be questioning this highly pervasive form of governance? Should we not be demanding the same level of transparency and accountability for this code as we do other regulation?

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