the morality of information
There's a lot of bad information out there. And incomplete information is bad information. Conversely, complete information is good information. Take child sexual abuse. To act, you should have a sense of the big picture.
I think everyone gravitates towards good information. We progress towards a complete understanding of the stuff we care about, or the stuff we need to know. But if you go deep enough into any issue, the problem of access arises. Access affects the completeness of information. You may not be in a position to get the whole story. Among other things, access is a game-changer.There is no barrier to bad information. There is a barrier to good information; not everyone can see it. So the challenge for people in the advocacy sector is to get the right (but not all) information from the people who have it, process the information, and push it in front of the people who don't have it. In this way the wave of bad information is stymied. Who decides when information is complete? Who decides when it can be distributed?What needs to change is this: we need to remove the barrier to good information. By definition, this turns good information into bad information. With no more gatekeepers, people can digest good information while they are taking their lunch, on the toilet, or minding their child, or a million other things. And the challenge becomes: sorting the bad information effectively.