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How Israel Uses Occupation to Develop Military Tech w/ Antony Loewenstein

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Importance of Transparency in Checkpoints

There is a, and I have a big chapter in the book about this, a growing war on Palestinians pushed by social media companies. It means that Palestinian posts, videos, comments are routinely barred, censored, cut, deleted for no reason. And these kind of companies operate with impunity because so many other countries are keen to take their technology in their own space. So there's two issues here: One, if there's a human content problem, we're not talking about seeing someone who killed themselves; it doesn't mean necessarily a suicide bomber or something like that. Two, why speak a digital story, why be run by ghosts? This report essentially found, oh yes, there was an

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