Name: Beth Noveck: Demand a...
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Description: about transparent government. Simply throwing data over the transom doesn't change how government works. It doesn't get anybody to do anything with that data to change lives, to solve problems, and it doesn't change government. What it does is it creates an adversarial relationship between civil society and government

John McCain

If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

American Politician

Louis de Bernieres

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

British Novelist

Glenn Greenwald

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

American Journalist

Arundhati Roy

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Indian Novelist

Roger Mudd

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Graham Linehan

Of course, I'm not saying that news interviews can't be adversarial. Sometimes, you have to be nasty Columbo or we'd never get to the truth.

Irish Comedian

Roy Barnes

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Jane O'Meara Sanders

The media characterizes every conversation as an adversarial one.

American Educator

Kenneth Cole

Twitter is a very powerful platform for adversarial feedback.

American Designer

Mike Cernovich

I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

American Writer

The word 'adversarial' often sets a negative tone implying conflict and resistance.

Conflict Tone

Adversarial does not mean physical fighting, but rather a clash of ideas or interests.

Not Physical

The term is common in formal and professional contexts, like debates or negotiations.

Professional Settings

Often used to describe a courtroom setting where two parties argue their case.

Legal Context

It refers to lawyers fighting for their clients' interests in a legal setting.

Lawyer's Role

Used in legal contexts, it implies no cooperation or compromise between sides.

Not Conciliatory

 about transparent government. Simply throwing data over the transom doesn't change how government works. It doesn't get anybody to do anything with that data to change lives, to solve problems, and it doesn't change government. What it does is it creates an adversarial relationship between civil society and government

Beth Noveck: Demand a...

 And two specific technologies are going to make it worse. We are going to see the rise of a tremendous wave of synthetic media. Fake video, fake audio that is very convincing to the human eye. And this will powered by two technologies. The first of these is known as "generative adversarial networks."

How we can protect truth...

 if they hadn't had this process. And her high school has reduced suspensions by more than half through the use of this kind of restorative justice method. Restorative justice alternatives involve offenders and victims in communicating in ways that an adversarial and defensive process does not allow,

How forgiveness can...

 You may be a person who, right now, doesn't want to engage in that behavior, but at some point in the future you might. Even if you're somebody who decides that you never want to, the fact that there are other people who are willing to and able to resist and be adversarial to those in power —

Glenn Greenwald: Why...

 And I remember sitting down, getting ready, and I decided I'm not going to order my favorite, which is you know, bacon and sausage and eggs. And I'm just going to stick to the pastries. But I have to admit, I was waiting for the adversarial discussion to happen. And it never did.

The business case for...

 Are the premises warranted? Are the inferences valid? Does the conclusion follow from the premises? No opposition, no adversariality -- not necessarily any arguing in the adversarial sense. But there's a third model to keep in mind that I think is going to be very helpful,

Daniel H. Cohen: For...

 The situation resembles an adversarial game like chess – only here you can’t see the opponent’s position. To figure out the minimum number of rubies you’re guaranteed to win, you need to look for the worst case scenario, as if the merchant already knew your move

Can you solve the stolen...

 That's how you feel now, but it's not going to be how you feel in the future. For the last 100 years, we've had an adversarial relationship with the microscopic life nearest us. If I told you there was a bug in your house or bacteria in your sink,

Meet the microscopic...

 and that's to enable an adversarial press, to challenge the government, but also to work together with the government, to have a dialogue and debate about how we can inform the public about matters of vital importance

How we take back the...

 it's really really painful to to uh to get bit by them so yeah i think i i again i have nothing against ants like in my day-to-day life but uh i will say the most sort of adversarial relationship i've had with

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