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Because it would significantly de-legitimize the government (particularly state and local) if any and every youtube talking head and blogger could pour over it and find the objectionable things that is supported by few and only tolerated by many because of poor awareness. And that's before you get into the spurious correlations and conspiracy stuff.

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It's exhausting the number of conversations online that assume that everything in the government is nefarious, inefficient, and focused on steeling ur freedums. I have worked in private industry, I've worked in government, and I've worked in the murky world in between. By and large government employees and thoughtful, genuinely want to make things work, and are faithful stewards of the public good. They usually make less money than they could get in private industry, the job security is absolutely no longer there, and the benefits are getting worse and worse each year.

They're just people doing their best. Try to be a little less breathless with your rhetoric.

I tend to assume government employees are a cross section of the population. I don't care about the people, I care about the system.

If you apply the assumption that government employees are better or more well intentioned than the population in general then it makes the government's actions look even worse.

Or it would make us look for ways to have government do fewer things.

About as believable as DOGE "saving" the government $105 billion.

I'm not really interested in any of that. But I am interested in us having privacy from government. The last thing I want is someone like Musk getting access to my personal information, and the only way to really prevent that is to not collect it in the first place.

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