> “If you only focus on instances in which the NSA violated those laws, you’re missing the forest for the trees,” he said. “The bigger concern is not with willful violations of the law but rather with what the law itself allows.”
Totally agree.
It's a question of culture and effective oversight.
As the last two years have shown, there are many vectors for discouraging speech and facts which are not sanctioned at a particular moment in time. Yet, the same speech may be permitted, forked and amplified at another point in time, to achieve time-sensitive goals.
Sometimes solutions to uncool niche problems are coincidentally solutions to cool common problems, which can lead to silent acceptance of the "collateral good" uncool solution, while promoting benefits to the larger cool market.
There's also the time-tested approach of comedy and satire.