But it means significantly more than nothing. Incremental improvement matters, and each success paves the next step toward the big important goals. There isn't a magic switch to just flip this enormous machine on its head. It's a crude, long, and brutal slog beating back the nonsense and cruft built up allowing such personal liberty injustices, and this is just another step.

You can't protect whistleblowers if you can't know about them or the reasons they were thrown in jail. This is a step to getting that information and working on a legal vaccine. (IANAL, but I am a cautious optimist.)