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The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance

Irregular Warfare Podcast

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The Role of Technology in Human Rights Violations

In my mind, this is the chapter Orwell forgot to write at the end of the book on state control of people. Right now states have much greater capacity to track and control and monitor and harass and repress their populations than they ever have. I think we're seeing the rollback in democracy and the related rollback in civil liberties and rights in all these countries. Every single one of these tools has a direct connection to very specific human rights violations.

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