The article itself is also too cynical I find, perhaps bending the stick a little in the cause of a perfectly legitimate attack on techno-utopianism.

Each technology has its own specific features, and the collective entity known as the internet is not the same as a printing press. E.g, a press is a large, expensive piece of equipment which cannot be easily moved and once destroyed is finished.

Whereas any computer can act as a server with the right software. Yes, the state can try and block activists from the net, but we will always have our own comrades working on ways around this when it occurs.

What the capitalist state would find increasingly difficult to do is shut down the internet entirely, as reliant as they are on the web for the running of the economy and military communications*.

And yes the internet is full of dross, and most users read the major news sources, but I would still contend that advances in technology do undermine a social system which prevents us using them to satisfy human needs.

*This dependency means the web can be a weakness for the state too, if you get my drift.