One of the supposed benefits that politicians often tout off about transparency is they will post everything on their websites. The problem is, much of this is on the website that they control and we all know that they have a competing interest to hide information that is not politically favorable to them or their cause. Technology may not actually create transparency, but only better help political officials create the illusion of transparency. Even if the government makes administrative laws that it must follow, agency heads and bureaucrats know how to get around these laws and rules just as they did before the days of the internet. Thus, the illusion of transparency may actually be causing the adverse effect of giving people a sense of false security.
In the end, while some 501(c)4s may be acting as watchdogs of the government, they only have so much access. Thus, although technology gives people the ability to track things, is it the government that is being tracked or the people themselves?
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