I mean, even democratic countries are using mass surveillance, not just autocratic ones. So I think, just like with mass surveilance, this “Social Media Investigation” would become the next step in the evolution of how technology is used against us, every country is gonna start scanning your social media.
I am reminded of a comedian…I believe he was Iranian-American or something like that, muslim background, travels for work as a stand-up comedian. Some three letter agency wanted him to check in every now and again to let them know what he was doing. So he would send them everything he could. Every byte of data he could generate, dinner receipts, pictures of plane tickets, episodes of TV shows he watched, video of himself walking down the street…