Mashable Connect Day 1 - #mashcon

May 4: Highlighted social content from the first day of sessions from Mashable Connect at Walt Disney World.

  1. Session #1: After SOPA / PIPA: What Winning (One) Means.
    Lawrence Lessig (@lessig), Roy L. Furman Professor of Law & Leadership, Harvard Law School & Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

  2. 1st speaker at #MashCon: Harvard professor Lawrence @Lessing. Topic: "After #SOPA / #PIPA: What Winning (One) Means."
  3. "We carve up spectrum and sell it based on who values it the most" #mashcon
  4. .@lessig: Lobbyists killed idea of free, shared spectrum. #MashCon
  5. .@lessig: Community-based broadband vastly improved broadband access in North Carolina #MashCon
  6. Oct 1998: The Sonny Bono Copyright Act extended copyright for 20 years. Did it advance the public good? #mashcon
  7. .@lessig: Lobbyists killed idea of free, shared spectrum. #MashCon
  8. @lessig: "No brains" in Congress when it extended copyrights. But there was $6.3M lobbying dollars exchanged. #MashCon
  9. Jack Valenti's photo comes up @lessig's #MashCon presentation. I get scared. Bogeyman for reals.
  10. Love that @lessig just referenced @doctorow "Down & Out in Magic Kingdom" at #mashcon, which is in WDW.
  11. Harvard economist quoted as explaining her lack of books by saying "everything I need is on the Internet now." Love it. @lessig #mashcon
  12. .@lessig "Everything I need is on the Internet now.".. if you're a member of the knowledge elite. Rest of the public: not so much. #mashcon
  13. .@lessig: MoveOn.org formed in '98 for citizens to demand that Congress "moves on" from Clinton-Lewinsky affair. #MashCon
  14. SOPA/PIPA, Rush Limbaugh, Komen, ALEC - organizations of thousands of people rallying to change what we do. #exopolitics #mashcon
  15. .@lessig references "The Starfish and the Spider" to describe these movements tgsm.us/IOGLO3 #mashcon
  16. Larry @Lessig is presently on stage at #Mashcon in #WDW, giving a talk that uses my book DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM as a framework!

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