Most of the venture capital that fueled the techno booms were Russian - hence all this dumb "Let's make everything family friendly!" (anti-LBGTQ, anti-NSFW) mindset. Now that money is going ... elsewhere.
Those things are useful as fuck. At first they blocked mind controlling aliens. Then it also worked against mind-reading NSA. And now it blocks brainwashing 5G. The DoD must be spending trillions to bypass tinfoil technology.