I'm quite big on privacy rights for indibviduals but I also feel that when corporate wealth (thus, influence on culture and politics) reaches a certain scale, radical levels of transparency become very important for the health of our society. For an extreme example, the public deserved (and still does) to know who were the individuals at Shell devising a decades-long misinformation campaign about climate change -- and that the bullshit they were hearing about climate change being fake was driven by nothing but greed.
To address inevitable replies: No, I don't know exactly where the line is (or lines are - it should probably be a tiered system), and I recognize defining those lines is itself a position of immense power. Those are solvable problems though and don't make the idea bad. (It could still be a bad idea, but for other reasons.)
To address inevitable replies: No, I don't know exactly where the line is (or lines are - it should probably be a tiered system), and I recognize defining those lines is itself a position of immense power. Those are solvable problems though and don't make the idea bad. (It could still be a bad idea, but for other reasons.)