Whatever you think about Joi, or MIT, or me, you should think about this. Not because it’s huge and important, but because it is ordinary and indeed, in the language of Arendt, banal. It’s completely normal today. It is the nature of ‘news.’ And that is its problem.
I thought the issue with MIT and Epstein was, well, MIT and Epstein, but Lessig says the problem is actually that the press are like Nazis because he doesn’t like how the NYT presented his interview.