>transparency prevents corruption and lobbying This isn't really true. I'm interning at the Sunlight Foundation this Summer, and some of our free tools are use

>transparency prevents corruption and lobbying This isn't really true. I'm interning at the Sunlight Foundation this Summer, and some of our free tools are used by lobbyists with less money to spend than some larger interests here in D.C. Transparency can actually lead to more, but more varied, lobbying. The really remarkable thing about transparency is just how much corruption is completely knowable and out in the open, yet totally ignored.