Rent Seeking Monopolists.

[kunkmiester]

The IT revolution started with the printing press, a good bit before the industrial revolution, IIRC.

The press allowed the level of education that enabled the American Revolution, and electronic media have helped expand education and communication to the point of making tyranny difficult without strict control over them. The internet complicated that matter, since encryption and the shear volume of data present these days inhibits control.

The lifespan of tyranny has been dropping radically, and the level of control allowed depends on the education of the populace. As the speed of information increases, people will learn how to deal without government, the level of control considered "tyranny" will decrease, and soon after a president gets lynched for signing a driver's license requirement, someone will just lock the white house doors, walk away, and no one will be the wiser that there is no government.