And the "fault" of this is technology. If we think a bit, nowadays they can have us absolutely controlled in everything we do through the communication technologies that exist today.
In a state of law, citizens have the right to their privacy, but we do not know to what extent that privacy is maintained and respected. But in authoritarian states (and there are more and more) the leaders absolutely control EVERYTHING that happens in their territory.
Being a dissident in an authoritarian (dictatorial) country is a risky situation for people and we see how they are persecuted, detained, sentenced, etc ... with total impunity by their governments. There are many examples, starting with Russia, Hong Kong, and going wherever we want.
There are some who say that the options to reveal themselves are over due to the technological capacity of the states, and they may be quite right. Which is very disheartening for all who aspire to live in freedom.
But that is the real situation in our world. While people are very happy with the current ease of communicating with others and sharing opinions and so on, most governments are even happier with knowing all that information and being able to control what people think and what they intend to do.
Today a government can know everything about everyone, and take the preventive measures it deems appropriate to continue dominating its citizens. That is why the current dictatorships are so solid, and so many politicians who achieve power in a more or less democratic way, when they are in power they try to maneuver to stay in it with increasingly less democratic ways.
Technology is their ally.
As I have said so many times, technology is neither good nor bad, the bad guys are those who use it for their perverse interests.
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