This feels like a post that was likely motivated by one or more concrete instances where someone was asked a question and was expected to answer despite answering being expensive. Is that true? If so, are any of the original motivating instances public?
I don’t have much experience with freedom of information requests, but I feel that when questions in online debates are hard to answer, it’s often because they implicitly highlight problems with the positions that have been forwarded. For all I know, it could work similarly with freedom of information requests.
This feels like a post that was likely motivated by one or more concrete instances where someone was asked a question and was expected to answer despite answering being expensive. Is that true? If so, are any of the original motivating instances public?
I think the motivating instances are largely:
Online debates are bad
Freedom Of Information requests suck
I think I probably backfilled from there.
I do sometimes get persistant questions on twitter, but I don’t think there is a single strong example.
I don’t have much experience with freedom of information requests, but I feel that when questions in online debates are hard to answer, it’s often because they implicitly highlight problems with the positions that have been forwarded. For all I know, it could work similarly with freedom of information requests.