If you think the internet has obliterated informational asymmetry you reallty haven't thought much about the issue - the internet and IT has literally revolutio

If you think the internet has obliterated informational asymmetry you reallty haven't thought much about the issue - the internet and IT has literally revolutionized surveillance, transforming the states ability to keep tabs on an extremely limited set of high value targets into one where nearly every citizen is surveilled by state emchanisms many times per day. The Inyernet certainly doesn't give the public the ability to analyze all of the telephone calls out of the state department or anywhere close, just as one simple example.