Politicians get positive screen time and headlines acting like they care about 'transparency' in a context that won't effect them politically or their donors financially. They get to say a bunch of open-minded sounding but totally non-committal stuff about 'getting the public the answers they deserve' but they don't have to followup on anything. It's a bipartisan public brownie-points bonanza, plus it's a distraction from more controversial problems they should be addressing so of course they're going 'all-in'.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's free votes from nutbags with very little risk. Everyone involved is "just asking questions". Plus it distracts from actual issues (hottest 3 weeks on record).

Camera technology has advanced so fast we have 4K videos of every battle in Ukraine. 95% of people have a good video camera on them at all times. Some people literally film every aspect of their lives and post it online.

If there were alien spaceships buzzing Earth, it would be in the background of Instagram videos within days. People would capture them inadvertently.