Instead of examining this aspect, the government seems content with either damage control or talking of the specious issue of “intelligence failure”. AdvertisementBesides, on the watch of the current regime, there is a clear lack of reliable empirical data on what people think. And secondly, this regime has been anti-data and has ensured that no independent actors will be able to collect public opinion. Three issues are flagged by the protests that engulfed politics over the past four or five weeks. Because the regime is bent on not learning anything from the protests except the technology to suppress the next round of protests.