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May 2, 2017

Practical Suggestions For Improving Transparency

Filed under: Government,Journalism,Leaks,News,Reporting — Patrick Durusau @ 2:50 pm

A crowd wail about Presidents Obama, Trump, opacity, lack of transparency, loss of democracy, freedom of the press, the imminent death of civilization, etc., isn’t going to improve transparency.

I have two practical suggestions for improving transparency.

First suggestion: Always re-post, tweet, share stories with links to leaked materials. If the story you read doesn’t have such a link, seek out one that does to re-post, tweet, share.

Some stories of leaks include a URL to the leaked material, like Hacker leaks Orange is the New Black new season after ransom demands ignored by Sean Gallagher, or NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers just dumped its most damaging release yet by Dan Goodin, both of Ars Technica

Some stories of the same leaks do not include a URL to the leaked material,The Netflix ‘Orange is the New Black’ Leak Shows TV Piracy Is So 2012 (which does have the best strategy for fighting piracy I have ever read) or, Shadow Brokers leak trove of NSA hacking tools.

Second suggestion: If you encounter leaked materials, post, tweet and share them as widely as possible. (Translations are always needed.)

Improving transparency requires only internet access and the initiative to do so.

Are you game?

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