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It is also very different times though. The internet and how thoroughly interconnected the entire world is now would make it very hard for something insidious like that to happen without there being oppositionand outrage much earlier on

You're probably right. The internet is a powerful propaganda tool that can be used for the opposite purpose though. The difference is that no one group controls it, at least at the moment. Although there are powerful corporations that control large parts of it (and governments can get their tentacles into it too).