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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by black_puppydog on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:25AM (#22384315)
Except that in the case of politics, the "out group" who that information is kept from are the people being governed. And do you want politics to have a "strong advantage" over it's citizens?

By the way, this goes hand in hand with the encroachment on ordinary citizens' rights (often with exceptions being carved out specifically for parliamentarians).

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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by rumanator on Friday February 21, 2020 @01:52PM (#22385661)
> Except that in the case of politics, the "out group" who that information is kept from are the people being governed. And do you want politics to have a "strong advantage" over it's citizens?

Obviously you want your elected representatives to do what's best, not what gets you trending in the polls. In this particular case we should expect the EU to step up and help out member-states in need in spite of the political abuse and exploitation by populist parties of problems such as the sovereign debt crisis.

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