Comment by implmntatio

As much as I would like to and as easy as it is to agree with you, it's about the public data, not the researcher or research.

And systemic risk doesn't mean anything. It means what you continue to describe: context.

> a power "researchers" should have.

Again. It's about public data. Nobody can or would prohibit counting cars or pedestrians and nobody would try to make it harder than it already is. This applies to platforms like Twitter as well.

> It's only a problem for the the naïve, who suppose the future is governed by only the right people.

The naïve suppose that exactly those people will govern who want the job, which, judging from their experience, are neither engineers, nor hackers, coders, scientists or scientifically literate people and definitely nobody who was ever concerned with their own education.