I think there are parallels both in times and geography. In the west - Cold War / 60's Red Witch-hunts and in the east at roughly the same time - East Germany,

I think there are parallels both in times and geography. In the west - Cold War / 60's Red Witch-hunts and in the east at roughly the same time - East Germany, KGB etc. Different technologies, but the actions changed and were addressed via politics mainly. Technologies might be here to stay, but we shouldn't expect that the way we use them as societies stay the same.