[pibaker]

This is why China and Russia are shiny beacons of democracy and liberalism — they heavily regulate their social media!

Seriously, do people not look at history or at least the world around them when they make such claims? Genocides have happened before we had internet, or TV, or radio, or any modern technology people attribute genocides to. Hatred and violence are parts of human nature and trying to blame it on technology is just us trying not to make ourselves look bad.