Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie...
by Andrex on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:07PM
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FOIA makes the US gov't one of the more transparent democracies, as a counterpoint. So much so it started getting copied by them.
Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie...
by Nullabillity on Sunday February 23, 2025 @03:48PM
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According to the very link you posted, the US was two whole centuries late to the party. Better late than never of course, but the spin of trying to then frame it as an American Victory(tm) is pretty ridiculous.
Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie...
by thelamest on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:41PM
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“Transparency” as leaks from abuse is very, very different from transparency as a policy of easy access – and neither makes you necessarily better informed. In short, a biased selection of information can leave you worse off than having no information.
I think it's obvious that some secrets should be kept. It makes little sense to expose our nuclear secrets, counter espionage, or ongoing investigation efforts. But how far does or should that extend? Should everything the NSA/CIA/FBI/IRS does be secret? Should they stay secret for years or decades or forever?
IMO, the US goes too far in it's secrets. Stuff gets classified that just makes the government look bad and that's dangerous.
And that's where I'm somewhat less concerned about putting US secrets into the cloud. Sure there's highly sensitive stuff that shouldn't go there, but there's also a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been a secret in the first place.