Modern Day totalitarianism

A modern day example of totalitarianism would be in the following countries:

China



Syria



Egypt


I consider these countries to be in a state of totalitarianism because of how limited the people are in terms of there actions and rights to information.

More recently, the iPhone all together has been banned form Syria to control the spread of information from Syria to any other country. The whole reason for this is that they are having some Governmental turmoil and the people ARE NOT HAVING IT. Since protests started to become more frequent starting January of this year, approximately 4000 people have been killed! The government is NOT HAVING IT. Naturally people are trying to get the word out and document their Governments wrongs via smart phone, and more specifically the iPhone. At this point, this situation has escalated so far that even as a tourist, if you have an iPhone you could be (and most likely will be) under suspicion of being a SPY.

In China they actively search and weed out people who are posting anything anti-government and will often deem a lot of posts as "spreading rumors". People found are prosecuted and jailed for these offences. In Canada we are free to tweet or post anything we would like we would like whether it is bashing the government or any political slander, so its odd for us to see this type of action taking over a social networking service. This is an apparent censorship and it really limits people ability to speak freely.

Egypt's ongoing crisis is apparently related to a form of totalitarianism, its basically a state of emergency seeing as there is not stable government. The people running the country right now is military, all of this being sprung of from the Tunisian revolution which also started earlier this year which ultimately overthrew Osni Mubarak's (former Egyptian president) reign. This resulted in the take over of the military for a supposed 6 months until elections could be set in place. This really limits the citizens from doing anything really freely, even a curfew issued on the country (which is supposedly unenforced and ignored). So far 846 have been killed, and 6000+ have been injured.