At least they had to show their faces.

"Anger comes from the Old Norse angr, which connotes distress, affliction, sorrow, agony, hurt," wrote Elif Shafak. "Anger is directly related to pain of a kind that so many of us, East and West, now feel, though might not express it in those terms." With the growth of the internet it was thought that, "The speedy spread of information would topple dictatorships and bring about much needed social change." Instead, "Today we live in a world where there is far too much information (let alone random misinformation and malicious, systemic disinformation), but very little knowledge and even less wisdom." Too glib and shallow to blame the internet. Religions have been around for thousands of years, wikipedia, when the only way to spread an idea would have been to physically travel to a new place. "Power can function as a tool in producing (and reproducing) social, financial and psychological realities," wrote Leighton Peart. "From this socio-philosophical perspective, I will make the case that Christianity, when combined with morality, can be understood as a primary source of control." Every religion is about controlling the faithful, though no living person has seen god.  "Millions of people around the world feel voiceless." It's always been like that. " In the feudal construct "the fief was a piece of property, usually land, that was held in return for service, which could include military duties, The fief holder swore fidelity to the person from whom the fief was held (the lord, dominus, or seigneur) and became his (or her) man. The ceremony in which the oath was taken was called homage," Britannica. Ms Shafak claims to be a feminist, so it is ironic that the first feminist pamphleteer in the 16th century wrote under the pseudonym of Jane Anger, Britannica. Social media maybe a "deafening cacophony" but it does have some effect. China has the Great Firewall to censor content on the internet, wikipedia, so the all powerful Communist Party must be fearing it. Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai accused retired politician Zhang Gaoli on Weibo of forcing her to have sex with him, wikipedia. Although the post was quickly taken down the knowledge has spread throughout the world, causing massive outrage. India probably cannot afford a firewall so it shuts down the internet. "India leads the global tally in suspension of internet services over the past decade. In 2019 and 2020 alone, internet and allied services remained suspended in India for more than 13,000 hours with as many 164 instances of shutdowns being enforced," TIE. Disha Ravi was brutally arrested and charged with sedition only because of sharing a toolkit on social media, supporting protesting farmers, TIE. Last month the government repealed the farm laws reform act that the farmers were protesting against, ET. Shouldn't the parliament apologize to Ravi? Shafak thought that, "The speedy spread of information would topple dictatorships and bring about much-needed social change." Sadly, social change cannot come at the speed of the internet. At least it has exposed the brutal dictators who were pretending to be liberal democrats.