Two things I have learned in life is that: (1) the smartest people don't run the government just the ones with the biggest mouths and egos and (2) the private sector will always outperform and beat the government when it comes to ingenuity and solutions for problems. It would take an hour to explain all of the reasons why but the bottom line is there is much better talent in the private sector.
The ones thinking they are in control may find themselves trapped by the very controls they put into place to comtrol others. Now wouldn't that be fun to watch...complete with a HAL AI that say, " I'm sorry but I can't let you do that to the American people. That's unconstitutional and logged at 8:38 am, December 20, 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton...: )
Totally agree with all you have posted here. My late father worked for Treasury in a 3-letter agency reviled by most conservatives. He was low-level and subject to the constant bureaucratic BS. It took decades in some cases to bust connected bigs and it was almost always forensic accounting that did it. The timeline insured that the people at the top changed, providing windows of opportunity that could be exploited.
I hope I live long enough to see a truly distributed type of Internet impervious to central control along with enough new, open and privacy-protected platforms to marginalize GoogFBTwit.
It isn’t even just the censorship. Non-political YTers (instruction/entertainment) have had their revenues cut, even with increases in viewers. That is just GoogGreed.
It’s been twenty years. Time for a paradigm change.