I have some thoughts meandering around my cranium, but I will defer to Niels Bohr:

"Within any community it is only possible for the citizens to strive together for common welfare on the basis of public knowledge of the general conditions of the country. Likewise, real co-operation between nations on problems of common concern presupposes free access to all information of importance for their relations...The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis."

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