The article was written by, Imp forgive me, a woman, but it's worth a read.

Essentially, technology has given those in charge all sorts of ways to tyrannize the people. At the same time, the ways online communities work (ex. autocratic mods) have acclimatized those who've grown up online to the sort of authoritarian governance perpetrated against them by those in charge.

The difference between the relatively soft-pedalled and opt-in nature of cyborg technocracy in the West, compared to its full-bore top-down rollout in China, is mostly down to the fact that Chinese culture doesn’t emphasise the individual as is the case in the West. Un-softened by the Western cultural imperative to reassure those who still believe in individual freedom, the Chinese order looks more nakedly, coercively dystopian than the one now emerging in the West. But it’s the same picture.

And it’s not just coming. It’s already here. You can expect the majority of Western young people to welcome it. For we’ve been forming young people into the ideal citizens for a distributed, unaccountable, AI-supported procedural technocracy since the early 2000s, by acclimatising them to the governance norms of social media. That demographic is now well into adulthood, and have by and large accepted the transition to digital post-democracy without a murmur.