[ClumsyPilot]

Very often tech is enabling these crimes. Monitoring and punishment of millions of people was much more difficult before.

[lotsofpulp]

And exposure and transparency was much more difficult before too. A tool is a tool, how it is used is the important part.

[WalterBright]

The Soviet Union had no trouble at all monitoring and punishing tens of millions of people. It also operated forced labor camps (gulags) on a vast scale.