Disinformation and propaganda don't yield democratic resilience, usually there is an authority figure behind them and believers who conform for the certainty, s

Disinformation and propaganda don't yield democratic resilience, usually there is an authority figure behind them and believers who conform for the certainty, stability, simplicity. These opinions don't require privacy, on the contrary they depend on the network effect. I'm talking about things like how the ethic of responsibility and academic freedom is in decline. For example when it comes to mass surveillance computer scientists and cryptographers are culpable. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1162 https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1162 "A creeping surveillance that grows organically in the public and private sectors, that becomes increasingly comprehensive, entwined, and predictive, that becomes an instrument for assasination, political control, and the maintenance of power - well, this vision doesn't merely seem possible, it seems to be happening before our eyes."