We can't forget that the whole purpose of the internet is decentralization. Perhaps if authoritarian regimes are able to regulate it, that is a sign things have

We can't forget that the whole purpose of the internet is decentralization. Perhaps if authoritarian regimes are able to regulate it, that is a sign things have become too centralized. The more chilling question is why is a Western democracy trying to copy the frameworks of China, the UAE, and other crumbling regimes? This feels like a shadow of the Cold War where certain people believed that the US would fail because capitalism was weaker than communism (parallels abound.)