Is it democracy or 'digital dictatorship'?

When you are sick, doctors look out four vital signs - heartbeat, breathing rate, temperature, and blood pressure – to assess your physical functioning. Analogically we can also try and gauge the health of a nation on the basis of some vital signs.

Yes, of late I have been getting enquiries on whether we are headed to a more open democracy or ‘digital’ dictatorship’ that is so smart and suave in courting you to surrender your rights, because as the old saying goes, “a diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”