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Lessig on antitrust and government regulation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Jan 7 22:46:48 1998

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:48:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>

Lessig is the special master appointed by the judge in the Microsoft
consent decree case. He once wrote:

>Whether a regulation is
>rational turns on the facts, and what counts as "the facts" turns on the
>theory that animates inquiry into the facts.

Wow.

How do we know what theory is the right one, and when we should change it?

-Declan



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