DIGITAL TOTALITARIANISM?

SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGIES AND THE POSSIBILITY OF DIGITAL TOTALITARIANISM

Abstract

This paper analyzes the potentially harmful impact of the latest digital and information-communication technologies on political orders, freedom, and democracy. Through a comparative analysis of the implementation of these new technologies by regimes in Russia, China, and the United States, it is demonstrated that no political system is immune to the danger of slipping into digital totalitarianism.