Contribution to the handbook
Supporting · Assessed 2026-10-27
The contrast between code ownership and control, and code’s effects on transparency, gives useful background for distinguishing capture concerns from opacity concerns. It does not itself specify a safeguard or implementation choice.
Does this challenge the goal?
None identified
The question asks for a conceptual comparison about code; it does not contest the handbook’s goal or scope.
The supplied account characterizes Lessig’s focus briefly and does not describe the full scope of his work.
Why this category?
- background
- consequential-risk
This is the author’s characterization of the contrast, not a comprehensive account of either author’s work.
This is an AI assessment of contribution to the goal, separate from whether the question has an answer.
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Read the exploration goalState how Danaher characterizes Lessig's concern about code and how he distinguishes his own concern.
What we can say so far
Danaher characterizes Lessig’s concern as who owns and controls regulatory code. Danaher distinguishes his own concern by focusing on how code can make public decision-making less transparent.
What remains open
No material gap is recorded within this part’s current scope.
Conditions and limits
- This is an interpretation of the author manuscript from an accessible mirror, not the publisher typeset version or independent new evidence.
- The passage does not describe the full scope of Lessig’s work.
Evidence and related ideas
Supporting evidence, qualifications and context play different roles in this answer.
supports
Two concerns about regulatory code Danaher contrasts his concern with Lessig’s work on code as a way of regulating people. Lessig focuses mainly on who owns and controls that code; Danaher focuses on how it can make public decisions less transparent.
Directly supports the stated contrast between Lessig’s focus on ownership and control of code and Danaher’s focus on its effect on the transparency of public decision-making.
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