Decline 'Friend' Request: Social Media Meets 21st Century Statecraft in Latin America

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1. An important point, but I'm not that worried.

On the internet, governments lack sovereign control, they hold no monopoly on information or power. And without that freedom of information, it's not the internet that everybody wants to use. And without that, they cannot compete in the modern global economy. So for the first time in human history, TPTB are completely stuck, like a sabertooth in a tarpit. They can thrash around and get all tarred up, make a mess, but they cannot escape, they cannot control the future, and they cannot shut the rest of us up. The only hope for the soveriegn state is to go backwards, to bring civilization back down to the level where violence gets its way again.