Comment by xtiansimon

> "control of the population"

Who is doing the controlling in this take? "The Government"? Calling for more government control when some say--at least in the US--too much government is the heart of our current political strife. Unless this argument is for corporate surveillance?

As for elections in the age of social media, why not just pass Blackout laws around the date of the election? One week not sufficient? Make it two.

But instead the answer is mass surveillance? To do what? Arrest & detain people, and let the judicial system incarcerate them for months or years while the process plays out?