> I would argue that a large part of the widespead acceptance of homosexuality in Western society was due to the deconstruction of singular media gatekeepers

And yet folk from my (mostly homophobic) part of the third world argue the opposite: that homosexuality is widely accepted in the west because it was promoted by media and entertainment gatekeepers. I disagree with them (and with you) - I think sexual liberation was an idea whose time had come; and the progress can be plotted to the 60s and beyond (maybe even as far back as WWII, when women were economically empowered); preceding even ARPANET.

And there's also plenty of political problems politics have failed to solve. Like getting rid of Confederate statues (they're not being put back up), which were eventually removed via vandalism.

> technology does sometimes render bad political actions unviable

Put another way, technology allows groups to organize who otherwise wouldn't have been able to. In Bitcoin's case, it's largely libertarians.