In my point of view it is a force for individualism but it depends how you are educated about it / how you educated yourself about it and continue to do so in the future.

The number of tools that enable you to live a self souvereign life with the Internet in 2024 is growing steadily and gives you a lot of opportunities. But always depends if you're willing to the work of fighting the collectivism tendencies that are being tried to enhanced on a regular basis. 
And i say this as a european citizen where our biggest institution (EU) is trying to force more control by establishing more censorship and control by the day.

But in the end this will just push more people to rise against their efforts and use freedom tech like #Bitcoin and #nostr.
They think that they can stop this but in my humble point of view they can't.