No matter what happens in the dust-up between Google and Beijing, one thing seems clear: The company is not going to be able to turn the clock back to 2006, when Google itself struck a blow against the idea of a single, global Internet, run according to American ideals of transparency, by creating Google.cn.cn
The ideals of transparency and accountability should apply no matter which political party controls the White House — a tall order it seems.
The new guidelines, however, state that museums should adopt policies that uphold "the ideal of transparency".
Even at their darkest, Rembrandt's etchings, like Renzo Piano's great glass cube, celebrate the ideal of transparency.
Privacy shouldn't preclude public accountability, particularly that of politicians, but McMullan, by taking the ideal of transparency to its extreme, offered a reminder of what is at stake.
Information must also be accurate as the credit-rating debacle shows: an AAA rating is harmful rather than helpful if it describes a CCC asset.But politics impedes the ideal of transparency for at least two reasons.
Mothers consistently supported the ideal of transparency and disclosure regarding all vaccination risks and benefits.
Mothers largely supported the ideal of transparency in being provided information regarding all vaccine risks and benefits.
He said he wrote the book out of loyalty to the "ideals of candor, transparency and integrity," which he said should outweigh "loyalty to an individual officeholder".
The massive paintings and high ceilings seem at odds with the Five Star Movement's professed ideals of simplicity, transparency and the modest exercise of power.
In 2006, when it is completed, we will see the Platonic ideal of plain transparency, confusing transparency, peekaboo voyeurism, I-see-you voyeurism and hide-and-seek deception of the dominant regime.
