diff --git a/notes b/notes index b0265450225a7eb9f2f829f7509be431a9b7332a..b1cd8c899bdb199c41ce4b4a9624db7a18b46ba6 100644 --- a/notes +++ b/notes @@ -1132,3 +1132,16 @@ a mass scale." (p.119) "In this second sense, code functions “as an anti-regulatory mechanism: a tool to minimize the costs of law that certain groups will use to their advan- tage.†" (p.119) + +Chapter 7: things are regulated by; laws, norms, market, technology + +"Norms constrain through the +stigma that a community imposes; markets constrain through the price that +they exact; architectures constrain through the physical burdens they impose; +and law constrains through the punishment it threatens." (p.124) + +Indirection and accountability +"Indirection misdirects responsibility. When a government uses other +structures of constraint to effect a constraint it could impose directly, it mud- +dies the responsibility for that constraint and so undermines political +accountability." (p.133)