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>anonymous

why?

releasing confidential government information is probably going to be bad for everyone involved, and does it really serve a real purpose?




Forced transparency. It becomes much more difficult to collude if you can't trust your communications to keep your corruptions a secret long enough to establish an entire career upon those corruptions and keeping them a secret.

I imagine corruption plays out across a social network of people in power. If it becomes more difficult to collude because of the risk of being found out, you've created a legitimate moral hazard governing the behavior of those doing the governing.




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