For full effect, it requires control of the flow of information. It has indeed often failed in America and other countries where people had relatively free acce

For full effect, it requires control of the flow of information. It has indeed often failed in America and other countries where people had relatively free access to information. But with digital information replacing newspapers, magazines, and TV, and with access to digital information being filtered through a handful of companies, those companies have immense power approaching that of governments that strictly regulate the media.