Governments are able to use Internet to strengthen their control

The governments threatened by increasingly synchronized populations can still avail themselves of Evgeny Morozov’s troika of surveillance, propaganda, and censorship, thus retaining or even strengthening their hold on the populace.

Technology isn't necessarily good for freedom: it can be used as readily to enslave, surveil, and punish as it can to evade, liberate and share.
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