Country of victorious cyberpunk

As you know, the motto of cyberpunk is High Tech, Low Life. And it is truly amazing how accurately this motto is embodied in Russian reality. An impressive story in every way was published yesterday. In the Saratov hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service, prisoners were tortured and raped for years (low life), but the torture was carefully documented on video and archived for reporting to superiors and customers (high tech). A forced IT prisoner was responsible for the database, who was stunned by what was happening, and after his release he downloaded and saved 40 gigs of "content".

“The torture facility in the local tuberculosis hospital works by agreement with the FSB, and a prisoner from all over the country can be formally transferred there for medical reasons. There are four categories of arrested and prisoners who were beaten and raped there: if he is interesting to testify against a prominent official; to subjugate any beholder or officer - so that he fulfills any whims of the operative. More for extortion than this man is rich. And by order from the outside: if the enemies at large paid the operatives 3-5 million rubles for organizing rape on camera.

I just remembered that the introduction of video recorders for American police officers is usually evaluated extremely positively - they say, police work has become more transparent, the rights of detainees are better respected. It would seem that the same can be expected everywhere? But pay attention - here the torture was filmed on SERVICE VIDEO RECORDERS. That is, video recording, of course, brought more transparency to Russian camps - the system of torture became more transparent, it became possible to record reports. They tortured and raped, of course, before - in order to break thieves, force cooperation, etc., etc. But with the advent of digitalization, as we see, new options have appeared - you can remotely order a person for 3-5 million and get a "progress report" over the Internet.

In general, another nail in the coffin of naive ideas that the introduction of new technologies alone can fundamentally improve life ("technocracy"). There were tortures - digital tortures have become. That's all progress.

Mihail Pojarsky 2021-10-05