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That's true, but there's still a ton of useful information freely available out there that gets ignored. For the vast majority of people the problem isn't lack
by Chathamization 9y ago
That's true, but there's still a ton of useful information freely available out there that gets ignored. For the vast majority of people the problem isn't lack of access to information that the government is concealing, but rather lack of interest in useful information they can access in seconds.
That's not to say that lack of access isn't a major problem - it is - but even when you solve that, you're going to be left with the much bigger lack of interest problem.
- Markoff 9y agoi don't think the problem is really lack of interest, but form in what is information delivered. if you give me 200 pages text document ful of numbers, nobody will bother to read it, if you make simple infographic based on this document you will see people are interested
- abakker 9y agoIn other words, if you do the analysis and the work, and provide the opinion and results for free?
- lovich 9y agoWhat you said is technically true, but it is literally impossible for someone to be up to date on every piece of information that affects them. Even just limiting the domain to legal terms, the US government doesn't know how many laws it has. How is someone supposed to "do the analysis and work" on all of that, on all of the terms of services for every single product that exists, all the information pertinent to their health, for companies they never even consented to work with ala Facebook and Equifax data tracking, etc? It's extremely disingenuous to call people lazy for not analyzing all of that when there is not a single person on the planet who has done so
- specialist 9y agoSteep learning curve. It took me a long time to figure out what was going on, much less figuring how how to ask useful questions.
- NaOH 9y agoIt's akin to what Steve Jobs once said: “When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”