Its already here in the form of Facebook, Google and Twitter. Have no doubt!
If they want to do it where the progressive folks live so be it. The ones who want no part of it will go our own way.
You got it. The Chinese just put their means of control straight up in your face while in the US The Powers That Shouldn't Be maintain the fiction that we still have rights while in reality the entire Federal Law Enforcement and Intelligence machine exists to ensure that those rights we theoretically have can be trampled at will.
The greater issue is the cutting off of financial services. It is Chase Bank closing both business and personal bank accounts of “unpersons”, the killing of donations by patrons on Patreon and killing alternatives like Freestartr so that content creators are left hungry.