> This was not an independent researcher. This was not the private sector. This was someone directly employed by the government. It's like a Microsoft employee wrote about vulnerabilities in Windows on their private blog, offering to sell solutions.
Bad analogy, IMO. Microsoft is a private corporation. The government is a public entity, responsive directly to the people. A democratic government is supposed to be, IMO must be, transparent to be effective.
As to whether this impacted science, you only need to ask the scientists themselves. They say "yes."
But maybe you don't believe the scientists? If so, that would explain why you don't seem to have a problem with censoring them.
Bad analogy, IMO. Microsoft is a private corporation. The government is a public entity, responsive directly to the people. A democratic government is supposed to be, IMO must be, transparent to be effective.
As to whether this impacted science, you only need to ask the scientists themselves. They say "yes."
But maybe you don't believe the scientists? If so, that would explain why you don't seem to have a problem with censoring them.