 So what should Americans demand of Congress in light of the Twitterfile revelations? Unfortunately, if a tool of centralized speech control can be abused by government, it's a virtual certainty that it will be abused eventually. We should follow the advice of Julian Assange and the cypherpunk movement that shaped his thinking, which maintained that technology, not government policy, is the only effective check on authoritarian tendencies in the long run. You cannot trust a government to implement the policies that it says that it's implementing, and so we must provide the underlying tools, cryptographic tools that we control as a sort of use of force. The good news is that many people are gradually waking up to the dangers of allowing a company to maintain centralized control over the public conversation.