Of course, I am only shooting in the dark, but do you think you may have been uncurious because your learning what he witnessed was correlated with an event that a nearby Power deemed insufficiently utilicious?
The problem, one thinks, occasionally, in the abstract of Far mode, is that some kinds of politics tend to drag our identities into them, such that if we were wrong about something, then we were the wrong person, and that is absolutely unacceptable. This does not seem to actually happen with biology or sociology so much. So I guess the REAL policy is against one of discussing politics you identify with?
I don't consider myself to be trolling.
Edit: In fact, to prove it, I'll stop posting forever.