Code is a very different thing. It's possible to run code and objectively see whether it does what it says or not. Political speech and whistleblower type stuf

Code is a very different thing. It's possible to run code and objectively see whether it does what it says or not. Political speech and whistleblower type stuff is very different. Without a really deep investigation it's impossible to verify anything. Let's say someone dumps an anonymous video showing Donald Trump or Joe Biden molesting a child. How would you verify that? For a CS analogy: would you trust anonymous elliptic curves provided with no background or provenance? How can you prove they're not somehow weak in a way known only to the generator? This is why some people are suspicious of the NIST elliptic curves, though in that case they've been around for so long and used to protect so many high value targets they're believed to be probably safe. They've had what amounts to a huge bounty on them for quite a while.