> to think that the bullies and autocrats and sleazebags of the world were too stupid to figure out how to use the Internet to their own ends This. There has

> to think that the bullies and autocrats and sleazebags of the world were too stupid to figure out how to use the Internet to their own ends This. There has always been a distinct classism in human society: one class has always been able to do certain things to the other class, but not the other way around. Right now the latest addition is mass surveillance and spying. Governments and corporations know everything about you but you can't really know anything about them except what they want you to know. Only through bloody revolutions did the classes ever change places if at all, or at least get shaken up and mixed a little, but there's never going to be a revolution again, because the might of arms on one side is the most disproportionate it has ever been.