what if the powerful can use "information abundance" to find new ways of stifling you, flipping the ideals of freedom of speech to crush dissent, while always leaving enough anonymity to be able to claim deniability?

1968 book "War and Peace in the Global Village" education for all people is the best defense we have against this new style of information warfare and public discourse distortion. Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan's book can educate people to be self-aware of their own reactions to medium and media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_in_the_Global_Village