[Azsy]

How is this non-sense the top comment? I can't believe we get this level of ignorance on HN.

(1) the ruling power will eventually control all communication and remove any free speech.

You think people can trade child porn online because we allow them too? Anyone building a illegal operation ( i.e. a resistance ) knows that you can make anything carry information. Even IF they find what you are using to transmit it, that doesn't mean they can read whats in it.

(2) they will constantly find and kill leaders through electronic means which are now amazingly effective.

You are overestimating the Russian tech by a mile. And you are overestimating the ability to automate this process by another mile.

The Russians will eventually torture people for information on others. That is exactly how it happens in the past.

A guerilla will be spectacularly effective, even today. But it will be extremely bloody if the Russians decide that is okay.

[bobthepanda]

also the whole "kill leaders" thing is very very overblown, because it assumes that guerillas would necessarily adopt some kind of hierarchy that falls apart once you lop off the head

in recent conflicts this has proven to either not be very effective (islamist groups such as Al Qaeda or ISIS), or actually make the situation worse (killing a Mexican cartel head usually just results in more chaos as factions vie for supremacy and upstarts try to muscle in). and at this point, most guerilla operations of this type usually assume their leader is going to die at some point and prepare accordingly.