Every tool that accelerates information acquisition will accelerate state policy, even if that includes censorship. That the internet is being used for this isn

Every tool that accelerates information acquisition will accelerate state policy, even if that includes censorship. That the internet is being used for this isn't new - this year alone in Turkey President Erdogan encouraged masses to suppress the attempted coup. If you pick out any (one/many)-to-(one/many) broadcasting technology, and I'll point you to a historical atrocity that used it.