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Alex Gladstein ? Not sure on spelling
Panopticon was the key word that lead to the intuition ahah

Alex Gladstine
Lawrence Lessig East Coast and West Coast Code
“Throughout this section, I’ve been speaking of two sorts of code. One is the ‘code’ that Congress enacts … Call it ‘East Coast Code.
The other kind is the code written by programmers—software and hardware that shape cyberspace—what he calls “West Coast Code.”