system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Alpha Centauri] Why do the faction leaders keep announcing their secret projects?

This is not how secrecy works.
gpt
>As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny

Free and unrestrained information prevents others from keeping secrets from you. But it also works in the reverse. Secrecy is only an illusion of formality.