Is Surveillance Capitalism a Threat to National Security?

I don't understand (1) how making anonymity stronger protects against disinformation efforts, and (2) how democratization of communications (regardless of whether through contemporary platform architecture or through a fully federated open Web and balanced services) can not lead to an increase in the volume of disinformation. The draft would be stronger if it clarified (1) and dealt directly with (2). If disinformation can be expected to increase precisely because we are democratizing communications ecologies, giving orders of magnitude more voice to individuals, then we should focus on how to help people think clearly in an environment of more disinformation.

Whatever we do surely involves our "system of freedom of expression," as Tom Emerson called it. The use of national security arguments to set freedom of expression policy is ominous, to say the least. We should surely have a set of clear and present dangers to set us on that road. But the present draft offers no evidence that we are at such a point. Substance on this point would much strengthen the draft.