Greetings from a transparency fan,
I found the post very interesting. I got over excited myself about
Wikileaks and posted my own blog post (which I do rarely) on what true
transparency means for the practice of government. I really think
transparent government leads to usefully engaged citizens.
Mostly conjecture, but it feels right:
http://tomkaneko.com/blog/2010/dec/wikileaks-and-new-authority
Tom K
On 7 Dec 2010, at 14:26, Seb Bacon wrote:
Hello transparency fans,
This is a fascinating account of Assange's vision of Wikileaks as a
revolutionary tactic for disrupting power networks:
http://bit.ly/fQPdXe
Anyone else as uninformed as me will probably enjoy reading it...
though I gather it's all quite well-known stuff if you've been
following from the start :)
I'm not sure it holds water myself, but then I'm not a revolutionary.
Plus, although it's very eloquent, the metaphors lose me. The
authoritarian system is an undirected graph in that it includes actors
and relationships, it's the internet in that it routes around
problems, it's a cognitive network in that you can impair the
functioning of the entire system by... err... making your neurons
mistrust each other...?
Seb
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