Naive way of thinking. If authorities hold on to power long enough, nearly everybody will cave under - some minority will go indie route. I've seen this happeni

Naive way of thinking. If authorities hold on to power long enough, nearly everybody will cave under - some minority will go indie route. I've seen this happening in Turkey first hand over 20 years, first some select reporters got banned, than some news organizations got bought out by friends of the president, then a handful of more liberal news orgs lost money, they got bought by some other friends, who actually kept their "opposition" mask, but actually made them a false-flag opposition and fired all the real reporters, some of which went to jail for made up reasons, others went on to be indies on youtube. Just check how quickly the elite has switched sides. You would have expected some more backbone.