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This is really the only thing you need to say to people having the same views as the author. It's the government that should be the more transparent one - not
by mtgx 10y ago
This is really the only thing you need to say to people having the same views as the author.
It's the government that should be the more transparent one - not the citizens, who are supposed to "own" the government.
Yet things are very much the other way around right now - by a long shot. Government secrecy has only expanded under Obama, even after promising more transparency compared to Bush's own secrecy. Almost every remotely sensitive government document gets "classified" these days. This nonsense needs to stop.
It's even worse when the media colludes with the government to tell citizens that it's "illegal" to read these emails.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161019/07004935835/cnn-tells-viewers-illegal-them-to-read-wikileaks-document-dumps-cnn-is-wrong.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161019/07004935835/cnn-t...