The shopping episode and the subsequent publicity have allowed him to approach the news media, the draft and the reality of professional football less as a starry-eyed dream than as a high-profile business opportunity with a lucrative upside.
By communicating exclusively via these apps, burner personal email accounts, and even old-fashioned clandestine face-to-face chats, these anonymous employees are able to strategize, contact media, and draft pleas for help without being monitored by the increasingly paranoid and vindictive administration.
Polish civil society, including KOD, have also expressed concern over another new law that consolidates the government's power over the media, a draft law that would allow police to shut down public protest at any time, and the apparent rise in hate crime since the new government took power.
The new government has loosened restrictions on the news media, is drafting laws on economic liberalization and is holding regular meetings with Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released from years of house arrest last November.
Whether posting on social media or drafting a blog, a broadband Internet user is able to generate and make available information online.
A draft media law prompted protests that it would curb free expression.
Gaye Sussman, 50, head of media services for Draft, will be president at ID Media.
The decree, called Laudato si (meaning "be praised") was leaked early in the Italian media after a draft was published by L'Espresso magazine.
This week their government produced a draft media code that Human Rights Watch, a New York-based watchdog, said, "could have a severe and chilling effect on free speech".
It can only give them heart as they tear away at the fabric of a draft media law that has input from independent journalists.
Chris Ekstand, the author of the annual N.B.A. draft media guide and a league consultant, said: "Editors will want report cards after this draft: which teams won and which teams lost.
