Government Transparency Debate

I think people not having access to the details of their government is unreasonable.

Make it only available to the government. Your average citizen shouldn't have access to so much information; only the government should.

Doesn't this just mean that governments have plenty to hide?

If the government wants access to all our private information, and it would seem this is now becoming an inevitable outcome, perhaps the government should be required to make all the records they view public with references to the officials accessing them. After all, our government is "We The People", and to ensure it remains so, we the people need some safe guards against abuse of this power. If the government has to weigh the public availability of records and who's using them a

which of these requires my government to not be transparent?

Do not governments have access to the same data given the right paperwork?

You can't "doxx" someone working as a government advisor. The public has an absolute right to know.

In this case, everything should be made public because the government needs to be held accountable. Governments should serve the people, not the other way around. Without proper scrutiny, there's no way to tell if the proper balance is maintained going forward.

The american people have a right to know what its government is doing.

Beautifully put. This information is _there_ whether we like it or not. I’d rather have as much access to it as a government employee than none at all.