I think you're wrong. The "increasing potential damaging effects" are only damaging to the current regime. The internet is just the latest iteration in a long s

I think you're wrong. The "increasing potential damaging effects" are only damaging to the current regime. The internet is just the latest iteration in a long succession of things that challenge the power of the elite and we're experiencing exactly the same blowback and propaganda that gets trotted out every time this happens. Even the whole "fake news" rhetoric isn't new but hundreds of years old. People with privileged positions, power and money are scrambling to widen their moats and shore up their positions against the rabble as they once again wrench the wool from their eyes. https://www.history.com/news/coffee-houses-revolutions https://www.history.com/news/coffee-houses-revolutions https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing/Printed-illustrations#ref28621 https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing/Printed-illustra... http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/liste.html?tid=415 http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/liste.html?tid=415