Dystopia NOW

I was watching HLN the other day with my grandfather and they were showing live footage of the protests in Iran over the elections. It was amazing to me b/c all the footage was amateur footage from people's cell phones and I thought it was so awesome that we could see news as it was happening from the people the news was/is happening to. Then I watched the Clay Shirky: How Twitter Can Make History talk and I started to wonder if all this freedom was somehow going to lead to an anti-technology backlash. Like what if China doesn't just shut down Twitter? What if they shut down the Internet completely or take away cell towers etc. Are we all going to end up in a dystopian future that resembles North Korea? Should we perhaps be "fighting the future"?