We've always been heading towards this showdown of individual free speech versus nanny state authoritarianism. What's truly unfortunate is that we spent two decades detouring through centralized webapps. This has made the authoritarians (both political and corporate) accustomed to having concentrated power, made it so the few apps that do take users' security seriously are seen as aberrations, given crazy extermist political movements a head start due to centrally stoked "engagement" metrics, and normalized everpresent meddling/surveillance in our personal lives. Now we're left fighting an uphill battle after the sheer majority of the population has been conditioned to expect that the computer they're carrying around in their pocket doesn't actually represent them.