It's not that technologies are making this possible, but rather that technology is undoing the previous era of centralized information when it was much easier t

It's not that technologies are making this possible, but rather that technology is undoing the previous era of centralized information when it was much easier to censor people without anyone noticing. The glass half-full take is that the internet is decentralizing information in a way that central authorities can no longer control, and this is one of the many desperate attempts at retaining that control. I don't think it will be successful unless governments go totalitarian.