Many of us believe that Internet or not will have basically no impact on this question of turning Russians against Putin. I have lived through the entire life

Many of us believe that Internet or not will have basically no impact on this question of turning Russians against Putin. I have lived through the entire life of the Internet and seen only the exact opposite things happened that we all expected and hoped would happen with free and open access to information. Conspiracy theories thrived rather than got rebutted, political discourse worsened, it did not improve. The power of large corporations increased, power was not democratized. Perhaps without Internet young people will be bored and when young men are idle they tend to turn to the kind of violent uprising Russia probably needs.