An analysis with journalist Ellery Biddle on clampdowns on digital rights when authoritarian regimes use it to silence oppositions. Listen on how internet shutdowns are affecting some wars and conflicts as well as how the nexus of tech companies and authoritarian regimes are herding political behaviour with little chance of any meaningful regulation on the horizon. 

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Digital authoritarianism

#honesty 
@pyu

walk inside the mall i keep my stick close
u can't touch these diamonds, what u looking for?
looking at these diamonds get u hit bra
i know what it cost, don't give a shit doe
way i'm scoring points i cld join the pros
im with my twin steppin on shit like mario
i'm with my twin like jacob & esau, yeah we sticking close
she did me like eve, i swear im so sick and tired of these hoes
i was fucked up ina cold, i had nowhere to go
u ain't ever felt that cold, of not having no home
hop on that bike and go,i feel like Manjiro
i gotta stay 10 toes, no i cld never fold

im tryna show u world of shit u aint seen b4
have u pop out in amiri jeans, celine ,dior
my lil baby a prada fiend, prada galore 
money busting out the floorboards but i need more
i'm up asf check the scoreboard u still haven't scored
come get ya bitch she a whole whore she sucking me up
i’m smoking grass like bulbasaur it's lifting me up
i'm off a schoolbus yeah this shit got me stuck

jacob + esau (meta)

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