Interview with David Brin: Government power is kept in check by stripping the powerful down and subjecting them to scrutiny in the application of their delegated power, so that abuse of the power can be caught and rapidly dealt with. We are protected by enhancing our ability to see them, not by reducing their ability to see us.

1. no government ever knew more about its people than ours does
2. no people have ever been so free
3. no people ever knew more about their government

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