The government has a very strong influence on technology and society. Both Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a fiction book, and " 21 Century Censorship" by Philip Bennett and Moises Naim, a nonfiction article, have shown different examples of the government's influence. By looking at both the fiction and non-fiction texts, it is clear that if the government controls the information shared by technology, feeding out false information and controling citizens with censorship by withholding the information while exploiting writers in the process.
In the book Fahrenheit 451, the summary talks about how futuristic firefighters burn books because the people of the society do not read and just enjoy nature. This is the first representation of censorship,