China regulates internet access; Iran shuts down cellphone service. Why? Limiting (their) public(‘s) access to “unapproved” information helps maintain their regimes in power.
Lawyers respond to requests for information by inundating their opponents with mounds of paperwork. Buried deep is the exculpatory evidence needed by the defense.
Access to information can be limited by its absence or by its burial in overwhelming amounts of data.
So, we look for “filters” to help us make sense out of our daily data oceans and convert them to information we can use to make good decisions. These filters have tremendous power to influence our points of view.
Sales, marketing, news – they all help filter information for us – and influence our viewpoint. The key?
Understand everyone has an agenda. When we keep that in mind, we may be fooled once – not twice.