The US's top media regulator hit back at critics of new net neutrality rules voted into law last week, comparing them to the first amendment and saying neither government nor private companies had the right to restrict the openness of the internet.
"The public's fundamental right to transparency and openness by their governments will be compromised".
It maintains that rather American sense of musical transparency and openness right to the end, with just the occasional twist of chromaticism or modality to prevent any hint of blandness.
This capacity is something that governments can build, but a lot needs to be put right before openness to capital can be relied on to bring net benefits rather than net disappointment.Reducing corruption would be high on the list even if economic efficiency were the only concern.
The trend, certainly, is toward openness, a growing "right" to know.
Mr Gandhi defended Congress's achievements on economic growth, political openness, the rural "right to work" programme and improving social welfare payments.
He handed out a crossbench peerage to Sir Andrew Green, the controversial prophet from Migration Watch, which first warned of the threat posed to the UK by mass migration, and then he signalled a new openness to a tougher right to recall MPs, the single biggest issue that propelled the anti-elitist Clacton MP Douglas Carswell into the arms of Ukip.
Many news stories these days are in some way also about openness and the public's right to know.
That's why courts generally apply a balancing test, weighing the plaintiff's right to privacy against the constitutionally protected presumption of openness in court.
"We think it's right to point out that the environment of a good university has to be one of openness, of discourse," he said.
