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 Importance of Salt and Light
John Wyatt: I think the work of organisations like Transparency International are just illuminating shining a bright light into places, dark places which people want to keep hidden. Yeah, and that makes me think of this analogy of salt and light, you know, that what it does is it penetrates into dark places,. It illuminates what people want to keeps hidden. That's a very Christian phenomenon. You think of the profits of the Old Testament, that's what they were doing. They were illuminating the corruption and the false profits and all the rest. Maybe the modern versions of that will be people doing the digital detective work. Right, well, we've run out of time. I hope that
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