Bella posizione dell'ottimo Monbiot su potere e asimmetria informativa.
Da leggere.
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/27/pegasus-spyware-autocrats-arsenal-spying>
[...]
The government is turning politics into a one-way mirror. Just as it learns
more about our lives, it ensures we learn ever less about its own machinations.
Its proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act would treat journalists and
other citizens making “unauthorised disclosures” as if they were spies,
threatening them with “increased maximum sentences”, which probably means 14
years. It has so far resisted calls for a public interest defence. But
unauthorised disclosures of government malfeasance are essential to democracy.
While illegitimate scrutiny is ramped up, legitimate scrutiny is stifled.[...]
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