It seems like fascism is the default emergent state of people living together in large numbers. Democracy and liberty can be added to the system via careful thought and dedicated action on that insight. We seem to be in short supply of both.
Crisis driven collapse & revolutionary reform which is a lot like flipping a coin and ending up with either a small democratic government or even more fascism.
If you end up with the first, you're still not safe as it tends to grow over time. Think of fascism as the highest entropy state of society.
"... TraceBack is most useful in monitoring the activities of large masses of people. But of course, that's why the Chinese and the NSA are so interested in this proposal in the first place. ..."
For the clueless or tragically optimistic:
Fascism came out on top. Communism failed spectacularly, socialism and capitalism slowly give way to fascism.