Authorities are currently engaged in playing off of one another, in a ratchet effect. Country by country, example by counter-example, it tightens -- step by st

Authorities are currently engaged in playing off of one another, in a ratchet effect. Country by country, example by counter-example, it tightens -- step by step. It never loosens. Gradually, expectations are shifted and conformation is imposed. (Did you see anyone stopping all the Western (companies') investment and profit-taking in the early days of China's Great Firewall -- as just one, and far from the best, example?) All the big money and influence is going towards more "controls". To quote an old movie, "Follow the money..."