Good
- Enables citizens of a ‘trapped’ country to speak out
- Provides a tunnel-voice to those who need it (i.e., shouting through a tunnel - someone might hear it and listen)
- Exercises the freedom to speech
Bad
- Hard to censor illegal content
- Governments do not have much control
- Extremely sparce and hard to come by
- Tor and other anonymity-focused networks make this more challenging
- Leads to an increase in extremism
- Extremist views
- Extremist actions
- Easy to spread disinformation
- Bots
- Social media encourages this
- Can be invasive of privacy