Reposted by Raymond Norman
"Pundits everywhere rhapsodized about how authoritarianism was on life support and how the nature of the internet made it impossible for states to repress the free flow of communication in the future. The future was freedom, enabled by 21st-century technologies of seamless connection."
liberalcurrents.com
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.