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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 Importance of Technology in Democracy and Rights

As powerful as digital stuff is for authoritarian regimes, it also creates a lot of problems for them. With new platforms and new apps constantly hitting the scene, it's really difficult even for a government like China that's so sophisticated in this realm. John Sutter: We have to just be realistic about the fact that yes, there is pretty scary technology that's out there, but it is humans at the end of the day that are responsible for building the systems that will work or not.

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