you re talking before the break about how technology, how the speed and sort of quantitative accelerant that social media has become for disinformation, has given a sort a quantitative problem that we haven t had before. yes, we ve had antidemocratic moments, yes we ve had authoritarian movements, yes we have people who choose violence over the rule of law. but it is this information technology side of it is new. one of the things have been most disturbed by in the news this year, was what happened with google and apple, and the russian government, with russian elections this year. the russian government went to google and apple and told them to take down pro democracy apps run by the opposition candidates. google took down alexei navalny s youtube videos, the russian government threatened apple and google and they both caved quickly, and did what putin wanted them to do in terms of crushing dissent and crippling