Individual human beings have a right to privacy. Governments do NOT have a right to secrecy.

[Luminous Animal]

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Why are these simple concepts not understood?

[Deep13]

1. agreed nt

[Luminous Animal]

2. Indeed. Assange and any other publisher should enjoy their human right to

privacy. Any Government or agency of the government should expect to be exposed by publishers.

[Zorra]

3. That should be a no brainer. nt

[downbythelake]

4. Devils advocate here...

Some information is extremly damaging if the public knows about it. Example: You cant just release the routes/route times for trucks carrying nuclear weapons cross-country on Interstate highways.

That is an obvious one I believe but the question is where do you draw the line at what the government can be secret about. We have gone past that line but its such a mess I dont even know where to start with reining it back in.

[undergroundpanther]

5. Because governments get co opted by sociopaths

Then said sociopaths get "re-elected" over and over to the point they feel like lords over us, Then it gets even more entrenched when the people are not educated in civics,or understand human rights ,stop participating in politics. The corporations become the government by funding said sociopaths elections and the press is corporatist and people are too busy trying to play the money game that's rigged against them to survive to get involved Since they have absorbed the market morality they won't care until it effects them personally,even that might not break their over obedient busy social abuse created apathy..
Corporations and governments should have NO privacy and NO ownership.In fact ownership is what creates messes like this.

[Pelican]

6. Why is they?

Just to be clear, are you taking the position that governments should operate under a system without classification and where the public has full access to all data.

[napoleon_in_rags]

7. typo: "privay" nt

[OnyxCollie]

8. Should use "are" instead of "is."

Why stop at a typo?

[Edim]

9. Agree,

but not only governments - it should include all organisations.