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Wow nice work. I'm glad you persevered. What they finally gave you is hilarious. The first design feature of the panopticon is that any inmate can be seen by t
by jordanb 10y ago
Wow nice work. I'm glad you persevered. What they finally gave you is hilarious.
The first design feature of the panopticon is that any inmate can be seen by the guards at any time without his knowledge. The second equally important design feature is that the inmate can never see the guard, can never see what he's up to or who he is looking at. Or even if he's around.
In the present context this manifests itself in the above hilarious obstructionism against FOIA and open government, and more ominously in Obama's war against whistle blowers.
- bpchaps 10y agoThanks :). What's absurd is that they released (redacted) numbers for phones outside of government, but claimed that even redacted government phones were exempt from release. Because of privacy reasons, and because they'd be interrupted at home. So, they essentially gave themselves FOIA privacy while giving strangers information on strangers. The judge eventually just told them to just Google the phone numbers as a check if they're public numbers. They followed with other checks, and a longish list of numbers was the result. There was one government phone redacted, but we got the name of the person a bit later, with just a name, no number.