Nowadays the “printing press” reports back to HQ on everything you read—for use for advertisers or criminals or governments (oh wait I repeated myself).
Imagine if the Gutenberg press created a miniature spy that reported to Rome when a book was created and read.
Then heretics could be tracked until the time was ripe to torture and kill them.
Notice how quiet this thread is? They have embraced this concept lock, stock, and barrel out of pure laziness.
And the problem is we can’t opt out if we wanted to. Just try to find a new car with hand crank windows as an option. It becomes wanted and mandated by the masses. And now cars are locking people inside and killing them because they cannot get out. Small price to pay for new shiny things that satisfy the laziness and convenience of the masses...