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Lessig first says that there should be "minimum intervention" in markets. But then, he turns around and advocates "network neutrality" — an agenda which is so interventionist that it demands that Internet providers not be able to charge more for services that cost more to provide. (Lessig was a strong advocate of penalizing Comcast when it simply limited the extent to which bandwidth hogs could degrade the service of other users of the network.) So, what Lessig is really saying here is, "Don't regulate anything except those things which I or my corporate supporters want to regulate." Oh, and since Lessig's think tank at Stanford (the "Center for the Internet and Society") is funded by Google (see the announcement at http://www.law.stanford.edu/news/pr/48/Google Inc. Pledges $2M to Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society/), he just happens to advocate the Internet regulation and policy which Google wants.