White House: You have to think about the children of the employees of cell carriers don’t get paid their bonuses because new customers switching from an old carrier choose not to purchase a new phone and instead use the perfectly functional one they already have. These children are really the issue here. Also when cell carriers don’t get paid for new phones, they then can’t afford to invest in updated security measures that make them vulnerable to cyber attack. And lastly… piracy is somehow related here. We can’t really explain how but trust us it is and that is bad (which we also can’t explain how so again just trust us) so you can see where we are just looking out for your best interest here. Thank you for your concern, but we know what we are doing here, and we’ve got this one. Now you can all go back to looking at cat videos and just let us do our thing.

This is a trend we see all over the world. In Denmark, a new law going into effect later this year will close for FOIA requests to internal communication in and between ministries, an unelected employee is taking the fall for a case where the 2 largest parties likely both have committed crimes, elections are getting digitized with civil experts screaming no or wait, there has been created a bare minimum of oversight over our three letter secrecy soups while they get every kind of DPI surveillance data delivered from ISPs and banks/government-citizen interactions and a register of lobbyists has been dropped for the nth time the last 10 years!

Transparency is not increasing, but decreasing at the moment and the politicians are increasing the insulation between their world and the citizens. It is a disgrace, but it is broadly agreed on among politicians and therefore impossible to stop!