Crazy amounts of authoritarianism happened in Russia, China, Germany and the US, pre internet. It went badly in all those places, but there have been a couple

Crazy amounts of authoritarianism happened in Russia, China, Germany and the US, pre internet. It went badly in all those places, but there have been a couple of generations and people need to relearn the same lessions. I don't think the 'net was responsible then, and I don't think it is now. It's a thing which happens when we forget how bad it was. McCarthy didn't need a home PC.