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Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state

Matters of Life and Death

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The Evolution of Code Words

There is speculation that even in the New Testament in one place in Paul's letters that he's using a recognized code. He talks about apathyroiditis, who he's been longing to see you and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. And it's been suggested that actually that was a code word that the, when people were being tortured, it was actually a code. Yeah, as you say, not a new idea, but I think the digital technology is kind of allowing it to infiltrate more and more areas of life.

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