Society is by its nature in part adversarial. If one group gets a new powerful tool at their disposal, it may change the current balance of power in their advan

Society is by its nature in part adversarial. If one group gets a new powerful tool at their disposal, it may change the current balance of power in their advantage. Just see how it works in an opposite case - crypto - where the common folks may increase, through innovative technology, their freedom from being herded by governments. The governments are extremely concerned about it, even though cryptocurrencies are perfectly legal and theoretically don't change much (it's just another means of transacting and storing value).