> 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

> 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.