A lot of the investigative journalism that goes on these days often involves people just looking at the traces left out in the open on public websites. Think of

A lot of the investigative journalism that goes on these days often involves people just looking at the traces left out in the open on public websites. Think of how much of what we know of the regional suppression programs in Xinjiang comes from volunteers looking at government requests for contractors and the like. A world without a shared internet is a world where Human rights abuses can carry on unobserved.