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Well, transparency works both ways doesn't it? Governments are largely not transparent. If they were, you wouldn't have something like the CIA, Guantanamo bay a
by deepGem 5y ago
Well, transparency works both ways doesn't it? Governments are largely not transparent. If they were, you wouldn't have something like the CIA, Guantanamo bay and the entire surveillance enterprise. I am just quoting the US government as an example but most governments are more or less the same.
Expecting others to be transparent, while governments go on about their private secret activities is very unfair.
Case in point - why hasn't any government adopted any open blockchain till date ? I mean, there are gazillions of operations that the government can use a blockchain for. OK, forget about a blockchain, at least an open distributed ledger ? For instance, all public RFPs and contracts can go on a queryable open distributed ledger. Why hasn't this happened yet ?
Let the governments show a spend log of every tax penny collected and then we'll talk about transparency.
- ArnoVW 5y agoA 6700-page report (1) and a Hollywood movie were made about Gitmo. Just like climate change, the issue is not one of knowledge or information. (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_CIA_torture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committe...
- jstummbillig 5y ago> Well, transparency works both ways doesn't it? Governments are largely not transparent. If they were, you wouldn't have something like the CIA, Guantanamo bay and the entire surveillance enterprise. Given that the existence of your examples and its horrors is very much common knowledge, at this point it is clearly not an issue of transparency. The people quite simply choose to be okay with it.