Is Transparency always good?

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1970 Legislative Reorganization Act opened the doors to the legislative procedure, giving the public an unprecedented insight into how a bill was written and voted on.

Moreover, now there is an API to access this information automatically!

However, it is not obvious that this is TRT: the transparency benefits the lobbyists who, essentially, move from the lobby into the committee chambers, and lobbyists are usually owned by the "big money" (often foreign!)

See, e.g.,

• Transparency is Surveillance
• The Trans­parency Problem