If you're living in another country and you don't want to get deported for embarrassing that government with observations about how they're catastrophically scr

If you're living in another country and you don't want to get deported for embarrassing that government with observations about how they're catastrophically screwing up, but you still want people to know you recognized the catastrophic screw-up as it was happening, then you might publish a cryptographic hash of your observations. But since many lives are at stake, you'd only do that if you believed the government was so impervious to public exposure of their screw-up that nothing you publish could get them to change course or mitigate the severity of the impending catastrophe.