[GreeniFi]

The “policy take-away” from the article seems to be that governments let it happen. I wonder if anyone on this board understands whether government inaction is due to incompetence, complacency or corruption. I guess like many issues these days it’s a bit of all 3, but I say that on the basis of my priors rather than domain experience.

[zacharyvoase]

You also need to consider the possibility that it's in the government's interest to allow a certain amount of otherwise-unlawful activity to occur, and make the perpetrators think it's going unnoticed, to trace a broader pattern/catch a bigger fish.