This makes a nice story. However, please consider the following. Right now we use Facebook and share personal details, but the USA does not generally act on the information that is shared. People are not being disappeared, shot, or sent to work themselves to death in the Gulag. If activists and political opponents kept disappearing, you and I would surely shut stop sharing on Facebook so freely.
It’s very well known that the information being discussed is “acted on” constantly. It informs advertising, political propoganda campaigns, lawmaking, voting districts.
Bullet point comparisons of a historic authoritarian state to a contemporary capitalist society is rarely a helpful exercise but we should remain humble either way.
America maintains the largest prison population per capita of any nation on Earth.
America experiences more than 39,000 gun deaths per year.
