Nigeria suspends Twitter indefinitely after deleted tweet from its president

But China and Iran are not democratic nations. And he has less than 2 years. If Iran has the power and will, and hoe come they have routinely fail to stop those sabotaging their infrastructure. I think China is the only one with that unique capability right now.

My idea of "gross authoritarianism" is a government headed by a literal former military dictator who prior to his own military dictatorship had participated in state-sanctioned genocide. It's a government whose security forces terrorise and rob citizens on the daily, because the spirit of the military junta it was under for decades never actually went anywhere (and also because when protests against their actions get answered by the army opening fire on civilians). It's a government that straight up doesn't pay its civil servants their salaries and pensions because accountability does not exist, and that consistently implements policies designed to frustrate and starve its population. It's this and too many other things to name and very much also a government that bans a social media platform because said platform removed a tweet where it dog-whistle threatened genocide against the peoples it had already committed genocide against a half-century ago.

But I can understand how people who've been coddled all their lives could form an idea of "gross authoritarianism" as "the web has big social media platforms".