The "shallow platitudes" cut through the BS. The government is trying to gag researchers because they want to hide their own failure. The narrative that the

The "shallow platitudes" cut through the BS. The government is trying to gag researchers because they want to hide their own failure. The narrative that the government is afraid of PII being revealed during a trial is straight horse shit. The courts themselves will decide what is or isn't appropriate information for a witness to share on the stand. Furthermore, am I to believe these researchers are trusted not to share student PII when doing their normal academic research, but at soon as they become witnesses against the state that trust is no longer warranted? Bullshit. If protecting PII were the motivation they would not allow researchers to access that PII and publish their findings. What they're actually doing is preventing those researchers from testifying against the state. They're not protecting students, they're protecting the state's interests.