The California Charter School Assn., also a powerful lobbying force, said it favored openness but opposed the particular bill.
A day later, Rogers, who had been NSA director for only a week, stated that he favored openness and transparency in the agency's response to Snowden.
If he's not losing now, he will lose eventually because history favors openness, democracy and respect for international law.
And in crises, government's fondness for secrecy has a way of surfacing -- even when the government favors openness, as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration generally does.
The tendency of civil court judges to favor openness when it comes to rape claims frustrates Ressler and others, such as Meg Garvin, executive director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute.
Facebook, which has nearly 1.2 billion users, initially favored more openness but has over the years added a host of privacy controls that allow users to sort their friends into groups like "close friends" and "acquaintances" and share items just with a specific group or even with particular individuals.
Intuitively, defenders of democracy favor openness and integrity, as evidenced by our embracing the fable about George Washington's candid admission to his father about his cherry tree-chopping transgression.
Said one lobbyist who joined after serving as Chief Counsel to John McCain, "It's a kind of an extension of public service, it's really advocating in favor of the Internet, in favor of openness, and democratization of information".
"In general, we've struck a balance too far in favor of security and not enough in favor of openness," Mr. Williams told reporters at his weekly news briefing.
The major question facing China is whether the coalitions favoring reform and openness will continue to prevail over vested interests and efforts to increase Party/State control.
This model favored the neutrality, innovation potential, openness, diversity, extendibility, and flexibility of network applications.
