It was an example of a culture clash that's happening all over the world between bewigged and bestockinged officials who think that they can rule over us without very much prying from the public, and then suddenly confronted with a public who is no longer content with that arrangement, and not only not content with it, now, more often, armed with official data itself.
C'est un exemple du choc des cultures qui se produit partout dans le monde, entre officiels poudrés et emperruqués qui imaginent pouvoir gouverner sans curiosité de la part du public, et qui sont soudain confrontés à un public qui non seulement ne se satisfait plus de cet arrangement mais qui, désormais, est souvent armé de données officielles.