Wordsworth has a system which disposes him to take the bull by the horns and offend public taste.

You really can't come to grips with the reality that people are all coming to the realization independently that you and your little crew are fucknozzles. You also can't handle that we deal with you as individuals and don't have a central authority (other than common sense)guiding us. Must be a real bitch for you to be a wannabe super netcop-netnanny and no hope in hell of accomplishing it.

China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently.

IIRC, the official explanation is currently that human history in the Trekiverse diverged from our history in the mid-20th century, due to the cumulative effect of multiple visitations from the future.