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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.