From: LOLContests | #277
If the board was making clearly politicized or otherwise illogical decisions the media/civil society at large would have someone to direct their complaints to. As a public entity, the board's decisions and discussions would almost certainly be open to public record, so the average citizen could actually understand why films are receiving the ratings that they are.
In theory, yes. In the real world that actually exists, however, the media supports the politicized choices of the government and makes the civil public focus on some other insignificant story, letting the government do whatever they want unopposed.
And then, because the government has no incentive to make their public record easy to understand, they will force the average person to go through a complicated process just to obtain the records in the first place, and then the records are way too complicated to understand. There goes your transparency.
Further, even if the public started complaining directly to the politicians, the government could put a "private" system in place, like the Fed. Create a private institution that has all the benefits of a government organization, and is just as mandatory as a government institution, but now the government can say that the institution is private, so they can't open it up to the public. And then the election comes around so the media hypes up that insignificant story I was talking about and everyone forgets about civil liberties and personal choice.
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