Zephyr Teachout
Lawyer
1971-10-24
Zephyr Teachout is an American attorney, author, and law professor known for work on antitrust, corruption, and democracy law. She has also run for elected office in New York.
Books by Zephyr Teachout
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Break 'Em Up
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Corruption in America
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Mousepads, shoe leather, and hope
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Quotes by Zephyr Teachout
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The tools Facebook provides make discrimination easy. Facebook has monopoly profit margins, so it could easily provide real staffing to protect against discrimination, if it wanted to. It doesn't want to.
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To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.
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I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.
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The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.
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I think a lot of campaigns mis-learned the lessons of Obama 2008. They overly focused on the particular tools, and less so on the fact that the Internet enables a kind of culture of trust to be translated into real power.
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People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.
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The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.
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