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Well at least until the point some of those people you refer to decide that they want to run things another way, and muster up enough resources and support for such.

This tends to happen from time to time outside of the current constructs of the government at the time.



Unfortunately in America power is way too concentrated in current times for this to be true, it haves more military power than all other countries in the world -minus China- combined. The damage-power of the weapons that America haves now are also beyond any historical precedent.

Also, America controls all the communication channels including Internet (domain assignment is done in USA, see ICANN), there is still no direct filtering and content control but politicians are slowly pushing laws to get us there.




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