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A Roadmap for Confronting the Chilling Effects of Censorship, Surveillance and New Technology
26th July 2026 • The Tech Policy Press Podcast • Tech Policy Press
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Across the world, despots and and wannabe dictators are deploying new tools, both legal and technological, to stifle dissent and oppress. Today’s guest is Jonathon W. Penney, the author of Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, a book from Cambridge University Press that explores the weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and technologies of control and offers a roadmap for the reforms necessary to push back.

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