I’m not going to hold my breath until something substantial comes from this. The vast majority of the files are boring. It’s not like there are 300,000 documents that all say “This list of people were fucking children:”. It’s flight logs and emails and receipts and photos of the most boring shit imaginable. Only a small percentage of the overall files contain anything of substance to people on the outside looking in.
The fact that this knowledge of ineffective censorship didn’t come right on the heels of some big, juicy, reveal tells me that the documents censored in that way all fall into the “boring” category.
I’m not going to hold my breath until something substantial comes from this. The vast majority of the files are boring. It’s not like there are 300,000 documents that all say “This list of people were fucking children:”. It’s flight logs and emails and receipts and photos of the most boring shit imaginable. Only a small percentage of the overall files contain anything of substance to people on the outside looking in.
The fact that this knowledge of ineffective censorship didn’t come right on the heels of some big, juicy, reveal tells me that the documents censored in that way all fall into the “boring” category.
Welcome to the real world of data analysis. It’s almost all boring, and it’s not even the needle in the haystack you are actually looking for.
It’s how the haystacks connect and fit together that forms an easy to digest narrative. Takes time.