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It doesn't matter if you need to contact them. They're domestic public servants, not clandestine agents operating overseas. Why shouldn't their position in th
by huffmsa 8y ago
It doesn't matter if you need to contact them.
They're domestic public servants, not clandestine agents operating overseas.
Why shouldn't their position in the government and means of email/phone/postal contact be part of the public record?
Pranks will be appropriately addressed, by the very same public servants you're okay with being nameless and faceless.
- bpicolo 8y agoI would never expect public servant's private phone numbers / private mailing addresses to be publicized. The only usage of that would be harassment. Work mail / phone? Sure.
- huffmsa 8y agoOf course not private. But isn't it fair to say that the only reason this hack and leak is happening is because the work contact information isn't available?
- JohnStrangeII 8y agoThat seems unlikely. The hackers say that they have much more data of this kind and plan to sell it to the highest bidder. These are not government transparency activists.
- huffmsa 8y agoBut they predominantly have data that should be public. With some home email and postal addresses mixed in. The value of the data they're looking to leverage is that this information or even a close approximation of it simply isn't available. They're going from 0 to 2. If public contact information was available, it'd be more of a 1 to 1.5-2 value.
- itronitron 8y agoIn at least one conservative US state they have passed laws that require the publication online of public servant's salaries as well as their property addresses (i.e. primary residence). Not sure what the logic is there, if any.
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- huffmsa 8y agoUnaccountable bureaucrats are without fail one of the lynchpins to the corruption and ultimate collapse of governments throughout history.
- huffmsa 8y agoAll these bootlickers exercising their down votes without bothering to leave a comment and a putting their internet name and reputation on the line. Public servants should be respected, but they also need to be visible and accountable. Anonymity precludes that. I don't think that's an irrational position to hold.
- codycraven 8y agoWith this viewpoint one must also be ready to accept the consequences. For a person to become a police officer they will take on much more risk to their families and property. I'd imagine the personality type that doesn't fear this risk is the exact type of officer one wouldn't want on the street. Recruiting officers will also be more difficult which means pay/benefits must be increased (which cities often don't have) or quality of candidate accepted must decrease (putting inferior/riskier cops on the street in a position of power).
- huffmsa 8y ago> For a person to become a police officer they will take on much more risk to their families and property. And why is that? Why are LEO disliked or having to live in fear? Shouldn't a society support the members of itself who willingly take on a role to protect said society? Perhaps it's that the populous is increasingly seeing the police apparatus as the enforcement arm of a shadowy, unaccountable bureaucracy in bed with corporations and the elite, and not a force for the protection of the public. So again, who's who and what they do in the government should be publicly accessible.
- CompanionCuuube 8y ago> And why is that? Because by definition, their job puts them in close adversarial contact with people inclined to breaking the law and violence.