Maybe we should ask how human rights abuses plan to persist if their proponents are funding new platforms of self expression and better flows of information that offer tremendous empowerment for the average person to learn about and speak out against such injustices. This seems a poor strategy if the goal is to keep the people ignorant and subject to the ancient stupidity of religious dogma.
I daresay you are a few years behind. Social networking hasn’t proven to be quite the platform for self-expression and resistance to oppression that it may have seemed a decade ago. A number of authoritarian states now have deep social network penetration, but they have managed to neuter political criticism. Requiring that one use one's real name and identifiable details (like a mobile phone number; in many countries you have to show your ID to buy a SIM card) helps ensure an atmosphere of self-censorship, where people don’t air strident views too much because they worry about the consequences.
> the goal is to keep the people ignorant and subject to the ancient stupidity of religious dogma
The present wave of fundamentalist Orthodoxy in Russia (demanding a ban on screenings of the film Mathilda, attacking other arts figures or those who would try to shield property from Church repossession, etc.) is actually mobilized in large part through social-networking platforms.
