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