While you are correct, and xitter is essentially the social media arm of the government now, i believe that that doesn't legally mean that it's owned by the government.
If that was Gandalf the White he’d know exactly how to escape and tell everyone exactly what to do every step of the way until the final puzzle, at which point he just stands to the side and stares at them solving it. When they finally succeed, in the nick of time, he yells "the door is opening!"
Is 500 really big enough to get a proper spread though? Iirc my statistics course (which i don't all that well tbf) you need a pretty significant sample still, would think a few thousand at least
I hate when people say "people are not ready for this conversation", it just shows they are completely uninterested in any actual discussion about the matter. If anyone responds with any criticism, even if it's very reasonable, they'll just say "told you people weren't ready for it lol".
The Hobbit does grow more serious as it goes on, the first third is... an experience to read, i agree. LOTR is much more serious, the elves are much more the wise old beings (still jovial at times, but in a less childish way).
And yet when Netflix was good the amount of people who pirated went down a ton. I was on that train. Just give me a service that isn't outrageously expensive, has most of the content i want, and is more convenient than pirating and I'll do it, as long as i have an income.