That's because this is the first thing in decades that moved westerners into the good direction instead of their usual state of either choking on boot or being political amoebas. And the govts are fucking scared that it will lead, with combination of political and economical decline, to something way more serious. So the govts who didn't had to deal with any dissent for as long, reflexively revert to the first thought of all bourgeois dictatorship: police repression.