I'm not sure if it applies in this case, but your point make me think of something William Binney said: "Just the fact that people are being surveilled inhibit

I'm not sure if it applies in this case, but your point make me think of something William Binney said: "Just the fact that people are being surveilled inhibits their ability or feeling that they have the opportunity to do new and creative and innovative things. So that kind of reduces their risk taking basically, which in turn means you get less and less creativity and innovation and more and more stagnation of civilization. That's what happened in the Soviet Union. That's what happened in East Germany and the Communist plot. They stagnated because people were being so surveilled that they were afraid to do things. It made people afraid to take a risk." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgbJqFrwhbw&t=9m38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgbJqFrwhbw&t=9m38s When the description of a project is "We are a federation of microbloggers who care about ethics and solidarity and want to quit the centralised capitalist services", I can see why citizens of a police/surveillance state might not be inclined to create or work on it, even if subconsciously. But I could be wrong; Europe seems pretty heavily surveilled too.