In May 1973, the Internet had 42 computers (squares) and 36 nodes (ovals). Today, it's billions.
Imagine what technology today is at the stage where the Internet was in 1973, and where it will be in 50 years.
Ever since Clinton lost in 2016, many in the press have suggested that free dissemination on social media is the problem. They have pressured social media to re-impose, from the top down, the sort of monopoly on informational dissemination that existed pre-internet.