That&#x27;s because about 0.1% of Americans have anything remotely resembling the necessary context and expertise to even have a vaguely useful opinion or position on this issue.<p>When I&#x27;m facing a particularly vexing convergence problem for distributed data conflicts there are many, many very good reasons why I don&#x27;t poll people in a random bar or cafe for what I should do.  But the most important reason is because... they would absolutely, definitely give me terrible advice.<p>The good news for the government in this case though is that apparently in the absence useful context and expertise, and even when related to a company with an extremely favorable brand, the default position for the American people is to trend toward authoritarian oversight.  That&#x27;s a big social-psychological win for the government.