How does those instances compare to the number of times things that would be in the public interest were not shared, because the trained communicators knew it was bad for the bureaucracy?
Knowledge is power, and knowledge of what is going on can be used to harm the organization by outside actors - pathological and good ones - and control of information can be used by harmful internal actors to harm folks too.
Since (legitimately) harmful outside actors aren’t going away, especially in this space…..
This guy wrote 2 paragraphs about how the average CS person has less than a 100 IQ in a condescending way… while at the same time demonstrating he doesn’t even have a high school level understanding of statistics. You should look deep into yourself and wonder why you’d say or think things like this. It’s one thing to be condescending, but another to also pair it with some statements that reveal how you’re actually the dumbass.
I say this as a federal scientist myself.