Exactly. You look at this, remember that it'll be making its way around the world (slowly at first, admittedly) and it's impossible to ignore the little internal voice where your conscience used to be whispering "kill yourself".
If you consider what governments track today and what was considered "totalitarian surveillance" back in McCarthy era, it's clear where things are headed.
Or consider how many extra bureaucratic checks, controls, and laws exist now, compared to 1950 or 1920...
Years ago in communist Poland my father accidentally wound up in some kind of Chinese event where the organizers would give away Mao's Red Book.
At the exit there were two local secret service agents who in turn would politely, but firmly ask for the booklet to be surrendered to them, since this was a flavour of communism not enjoyed by the Big Brother, so illegal.
So whether they used to or not is not relevant.