{"id":181617,"date":"2016-05-04T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/04\/todays-must-read-3\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:26:00","slug":"todays-must-read-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/04\/todays-must-read-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Must Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Snowden has an essay in <i>The Intercept<\/i> on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/05\/03\/edward-snowden-whistleblowing-is-not-just-leaking-its-an-act-of-political-resistance\/\">on the nature whistle-blowing<\/a> that you really need to read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If harmfulness and authorization make no difference, what explains the distinction between the permissible and the impermissible disclosure?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is control. A leak is acceptable if it\u2019s not seen as a threat, as a challenge to the prerogatives of the institution. But if all of the disparate components of the institution \u2014 not just its head but its hands and feet, every part of its body \u2014 must be assumed to have the same power to discuss matters of concern, that is an existential threat to the modern political monopoly of information control, particularly if we\u2019re talking about disclosures of serious wrongdoing, fraudulent activity, unlawful activities. If you can\u2019t guarantee that you alone can exploit the flow of controlled information, then the aggregation of all the world\u2019s unmentionables \u2014 including your own \u2014 begins to look more like a liability than an asset.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Snowden has an essay in The Intercept on on the nature whistle-blowing that you really need to read: \u2026\u2026\u2026 If harmfulness and authorization make no difference, what explains the distinction between the permissible and the impermissible disclosure? The answer is control. A leak is acceptable if it\u2019s not seen as a threat, as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1002,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-good-writing","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}