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Aside from the other reasons already mentioned, fully public agencies would be astoundingly inefficient and ineffective. Government agencies are already subject
by enragedcacti 2y ago
Aside from the other reasons already mentioned, fully public agencies would be astoundingly inefficient and ineffective. Government agencies are already subject to an intense amount of scrutiny (some sincere, some extremely bad faith) and if every email, bulletin, roadmap, etc. were public by default agencies would become even more catatonic than they already are. There needs to be a space for reasonable disagreement and problem-solving without the possibility of immense personal, professional, and political consequences.
It could also make accountability harder because it would encourage avoiding paper trails whenever possible, even when employees believe they are acting within the law.
Is FOIA the right amount of openness? I don't know, probably not, but it's definitely better than public-by-default.
- mmooss 2y agoI've thought about that. I suspect, like many things in the new very open Internet world, people would become accusomted to everything being out in the open, and no longer respond strongly to every little issue.
- enragedcacti 2y agoI think it would look a lot like LibsOfTiktok. The sheer volume of information flowing would allow creating any polarizing narrative you want for an audience already primed to hear it and do something about it.
- mmooss 2y agoThere is a large volume of information about Trump, but nobody is doing much.
- enragedcacti 2y ago1) Political violence is very asymmetric in the US 2) two people have tried to kill him in the last 6 months
- mmooss 2y agoHow did this shift into violence? I thought we were talking about day-to-day activities of bureaucrats.
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