Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
Books are humanity in print.
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.