In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
@varadmehta His identity as Peter Parker I mean. Obviously he’s still Peter Parker to himself.
Ned has clearly done enough investigating that if there was some random kid in photos he’d be on the Spiderman list.
@politicalmath Kids are anxiety-ridden wrecks. They're not going further than a block because they were never allowed before and now they're to scared with no desire to.