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A bunch of geeks are begging, borrowing, and stealing
government documents in the pursuit of transparency chic. In
today's Wall Street Journal, Senior Editor Katherine
Mangu-Ward follows one merry band of information liberationists as
they lift court docs from behind a paywall. If these geeks keep it
up, she writes, the government may someday have even less privacy
online than its citizens.
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|8.21.09 @ 10:34AM|#
The Wired.com article was better, since it actually gave the location where the freed PACER documents are (recapthelaw.org).
Alan Vanneman|8.21.09 @ 10:43AM|#
"President Obama may have come to Washington promising greater transparency, but progress has been less than impressive."
Last time I checked, it was the Chief Justice of the United States, not the President of the United States, who is in charge of the federal courts system.
That said, I totally applaud the movement to make federal court records actually assessible to the people.
Anonymous|8.21.09 @ 10:44AM|#
Transparency is required under the three-branch Democrat government. How else are you going to be able to see outside of your cell?