How Technology Has Turned Our Lives Into A Real Dystopia

Fingerprint, face and even iris recognition, drones, citizen scoring systems, internet restrictions, bans, location tracking, social media propaganda, fake news services and more.

While technology saves our lives, leading to human rights violations and reminds us how dark the future can be, with some states’ abuses. The abuse of technology by the ‘powers’ with increasing applications in recent years how it begins to imprison us in a dystopia Let’s take a look at the examples.

Saying, “They can only get the news from me, they can only believe that I am telling the truth,” governments have repeatedly tried to isolate their people from the world with internet restrictions and social media bans.

Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are on the banned list in many countries around the world. There are even those who take the business to a whole new level and impose internet restrictions on the whole country.

• For example, after the recent protests in Iran, tried to completely turn off internet access in the country. Social media banned.
• of your people Russia, who wants her to know what’s going on only from her own sourceshas imposed a massive social media ban in recent months.
• China, on the other hand, is already positive in this regard. The country has its own social media platform and other platforms are banned; but your country’s own platform all their data is reported directly to the government…
• North Korea is one of the countries that carries out the most ‘shocking’ practices in this regard. In the country Internet access only government agencies and some selected universities. However, this is a very closed internet…
• Nigeria, Turkmenistan and India have also repeatedly banned internet access tools such as TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and VPN applications in the past for ‘harming state and public security’.

Over the years, we have encountered different bans in our country depending on different agendas. Although these bans were not permanent, they caused great controversy during the period.

Many apps share data with governments. Messages, media and more are under control

Although this subject has caused great controversy and Although many tech giants say they share data ‘only when necessary’, governments can access our data even if it will cause a ‘personal data privacy’ violation by putting pressure on technology companies.

Governments stuck with legal obstacles created new requirements. ‘you will give us this information’ He finds all kinds of ways to say it.

Even apps that stand out for their data privacy, such as Telegram, are often accused of providing the requested data to governments without meeting the necessary conditions. Facebook is constantly providing data to the FBI, It has been revealed over and over again in the news that Twitter has taken similar steps over the years.

Huawei is one of the companies involved in great discussions on this issue. Although the company does not accept Claims that it provided data to the Chinese government was one of the issues that occupied the agenda for a long time.

Drones go on the hunt for citizens, artificial intelligence and facial recognition systems follow everyone at all times. All this tells us briefly ‘Big brother is watching you’

• In China, drones that look like pigeons track people, recording their location and what they are doing moment by moment. Citizens monitored by artificial intelligence and face recognition systems are ‘scored’ He lives a life like he stepped out of the Black Mirror episode.
• Again, in Iran, where the protests continue, the government announced to its citizens with the video it published. ‘our drones are watching you, watch your movements’ shouts his message.

In fact, cameras that can be seen everywhere in the world do this all the time, even if we are not aware of it. Our every step is followed at all times.

What is written, watched and said is followed. Governments use social media to punish those who don’t think like them

In many countries of the world, all the shares made on social media are followed and punished as a crime.

• Any ‘sharing’ or social media movement in China It can be classified as a crime by being subject to inspections. Accounts and websites are closed.
• Russia is one of the countries that frequently gives material on this subject. Dissident discourses, news, posts and publications about the Ukraine war have been banned in the country in recent months. such that It has become a crime to call the Ukraine war ‘war’ on social media.
• In the US and European countries, this is the case. Controlling shares and data under titles such as ‘terrorism’ with events such as However, these practices are sometimes described as data privacy violations and ‘arbitrary’ and cause controversy.

There has been a similar debate in our country lately. While the ‘social media law’ discussions continued, some new articles were criticized that they would ‘create a censorship effect’ and ‘prevent freedom of expression’.

Governments, which take the power of social media and technology from the hands of citizens, use them as a tool of fear and intimidation and strengthen their own hands.

Continuing protests in Iran, technology today one of the most striking examples of how it is intertwined with everything. An atmosphere of fear is created and suppressed with the use of drones and protests gaining strength on social media.

Iranians, who use social media as their only leverage to make their voices heard, they are sentenced to death in their own country, where they are tagged with drones and then arrested.

We continue to see similar events in the world with more severe examples every day. Unfortunately, the point where governments that use technology to strengthen their own power and intimidate their own people progress with practices that amount to human rights and personal data violations. a real dystopia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four – a scene from 1984 (1984)

if we want the end of all this. But, unfortunately, it is very difficult to be optimistic while all this is going on…