By your own government you mean US or UK? I have massive issues with UK politics but knowing a few civil servants, they're not (widely) corrupt, and they're no

By your own government you mean US or UK? I have massive issues with UK politics but knowing a few civil servants, they're not (widely) corrupt, and they're not incompetent. In any department, they will normally be the force for good policy based on evidence, it's politicians who push random expedient ideas. Take grammar schools, the entire department of education knows they don't work and are being forced to push it. Or Brexit, the whole civil service pretty much opposes it, and especially the treasury/trade people in detailed knowledge that it's going to be an economic tire fire. Finally, regulation != censorship, there's such a thing as a middle ground.