All of these surveillance tools only work if you have docile population. If you're literally not willing to shoot people the way they do in Iran, the elite powe

All of these surveillance tools only work if you have docile population. If you're literally not willing to shoot people the way they do in Iran, the elite powerful minority is not going to suppress a population that is rebelling. The police could not control even small riots in the US once they broke out. The protesters did as they wanted. The strategy for now seems to be suppress, de-platform and de-bank people that are an emerging existential threat to the current power structure. The question is how long will this work.