Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo

Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by panarky on Friday March 30, 2018 @11:24AM (#16716840)

"The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie."

"This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption."

"Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are hit nonlinearly relative to open, just systems. Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance."

-- Julian Assange

http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by ambicapter on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:46PM (#16718208)

Yeah I feel like secretive and unjust are two completely different things, and Julian Assange conflating the two doesn't reflect well on his already questionable character.

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by jaggederest on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:41PM (#16718712)

Systems that are just do not generally require secrecy to the degree that unjust systems do, precisely due to the fact that when publicized, people will generally agree with just processes.

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by lukevdp on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:10PM (#16718927)

Except that even a just system has parts that can be taken out of context, and twisted to paint a narrative that it is not just.

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by slavik81 on Friday March 30, 2018 @05:05PM (#16719787)

There are a whole bunch of examples of this, though "hide the decline" sticks out to me.

It's also the justification for keeping courts open to public attendance but barring recording equipment (in Canada).

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by jaggederest on Friday March 30, 2018 @06:31PM (#16720371)

That's why I said "to the same degree", i.e. privacy is important, but you don't have to have the massive opacity required for large-scale unfairness to persist.

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