well said.
sadly i expect more and more of this stuff to show up the bigger the threat of bitcoin grows for existing structures.
populism has always been the best instrument to move the masses.
Thankfully, the decentralised nature of internet and cryptocurrencies offer a great medium of resistance against the existing structures. I'm sure more and more people will get tired of their shit and start to use rationality.
depends on the scale of education & free speech/thinking in a society and how much the internet will stay decentralised in the coming years.
i haven't seen too much rationality talking to john does about the snowden affair so i don't expect that to change as long as facebook isn't blocked.
it seems there's still a lot of room to make things worse until people start to oppose.
social networks' role during arab spring was definitively an aha experience for the class in charge to make plans for the future.