Just a personal observation—I have always considered that the rise of the newspaper in America greatly aided the American Revolution.

(In case you didn’t know, Franklin would set up his apprentices in other towns, and they had all been trained, both as printers and as thinkers, by him. When the leaders of the colonies started to work together, they had a way to tell the regular people the truth.)

This is just the same, isn’t it? A lot more gee-whiz, sure. Phones that might be phones or cameras, and that can be carried in a pocket. Communication in a flash, over huge distances. But it’s the same. Spread the truth, communicate, and the people can fight.