Once you've a few people in control of who can be heard, you're back to serfdom days.
The internet was supposed to bring a voice to everyone, now there's massive gatekeepers at a scale never known to man.
Anyone can be cancelled, only FB, Twitter n Google know what the 'truth' is.
End of day it's the equivalent of CCP, which people in the west dread so much.
Orwell, would be having nightmares right now.