That turns gathering news information - as reader - into hard work, and anything that's hard work gets put onto the back burner unless it's a hobby or sex.
I just don't believe there will be little colonies of earnest seekers after truth spending time fighting the system, a system that, in the end, provides much of what keeps things going, if in different directions to those some may prefer. But it's the global movement, the kinetic energy that counts and keeps what there is functioning, not the little ripples of dissent. Unless, of course, things get to the level of Venezuela, or like that. By which time it's too late.