Comments on: Secret Squirrel http://heatherbrooke.org Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: pat http://heatherbrooke.org/research/secret-squirrel/comment-page-1/#comment-16716 pat Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:14:40 +0000 http://heatherbrooke.org/#comment-16716 I have just finished your book and I am amazed that you fetishise government secrecy but almost condone corporate secrecy. I think there is a bit of hypocrisy in this perspective, especially the transnational nature of modern corporates. You ignore the potential control that they use this information within the public discourse, because they are 'just making money". They use this information to maintain a favourable policy environment while using a wikileaks like response moving to the lowest legal environment. I have no issue with the focus on government, however many conspiracies that you focus on are covering up incompetence and the law of unforeseen consequences rather than some grand illumanitesque scheme. I have just finished your book and I am amazed that you fetishise government secrecy but almost condone corporate secrecy. I think there is a bit of hypocrisy in this perspective, especially the transnational nature of modern corporates. You ignore the potential control that they use this information within the public discourse, because they are ‘just making money”. They use this information to maintain a favourable policy environment while using a wikileaks like response moving to the lowest legal environment.

I have no issue with the focus on government, however many conspiracies that you focus on are covering up incompetence and the law of unforeseen consequences rather than some grand illumanitesque scheme.

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