He also developed an extensive network of secret police and informants to avert rebellions, assassinating or forcing into exile the politicians who he could not co-opt.
They demolished the idea that power can not corrupt and co-opt network and hypertext technologies, that such technologies have a predetermined and manifest destiny of freedom.
The intended results of these activities are to persuade or co-opt publics, discredit the ideas of enemies, and splitting factions within the enemys camp.