…first it was Russian disinformation, then hateful domestic extremists, and later covid skeptics… establishment used whatever boogieman they thought could scare the public into accepting more political control over the online space…

For those like Fukuyama, who want the Washington establishment to keep up its ever-escalating interventionism at home and abroad—funded by unsustainable debt and inflation—the digital revolution is cause for concern.

But for those of us who understand that our economic, geopolitical, and cultural issues require radical change, it’s a reason to have hope.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/free-and-open-internet-existential-threat-establishment