Summary: Can you scrub the truth from the web? Or will people always find a workaround? An extraordinary tale this week about the intersection of new tech, personal stories, human rights, and repressive regimes. Plus, producer <a href="https://twitter.com/tkbeaty?lang=en" target="_blank">Thalia Beaty</a> explains how governments around the world use digital tools to censor and surveil journalists and their citizens. GO DEEPER: New Yorker writer <a href="https://twitter.com/JiayangFan" target="_blank">Jiayang Fan's</a> article, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/chinas-me-too-moment" target="_blank">China's #MeToo Moment</a>. The testimony nestled in an Ethereum <a href="https://etherscan.io/tx/0x2d6a7b0f6adeff38423d4c62cd8b6ccb708ddad85da5d3d06756ad4d8a04a6a2" target="_blank">transaction</a>. How Civil plans to repurpose the Chinese <a href="https://blog.joincivil.com/uncensored-content-on-ethereum-how-chinese-activists-inspired-civil-f09f095a9e91" target="_blank">blockchain hack as an archiving solution</a>. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/22/18008640/china-blockchain-registration-government-id" target="_blank">No more anonymity</a> for blockchain in China? Producer Thalia Beaty explains her <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/when-violence-isnt-news-enough" target="_blank">reporting on Syria</a> for Storyful. <a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2018/08/cant-picture-this-an-analysis-of-image-filtering-on-wechat-moments/" target="_blank">Citizen Lab</a> shows how images get censored on WeChat. <a href="https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2018/rise-digital-authoritarianism" target="_blank">India</a> cut the internet the most times of any country last year. Why Russia has <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/telegram-in-russia-blocked-web-app-ban-facebook-twitter-google" target="_blank">struggled</a> to block access to Telegram. Will Google offer <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-08/google-never-stopped-trying-to-go-to-china" target="_blank">censored search</a> in China? **Who You’ll Hear: ** Manoush Zomorodi (@manoushz) Jiayang Fan Staff Writer at The New Yorker (@JiayangFan) Thalia Beaty journalist (@tkbeaty) CREDITS: Thalia Beaty, Producer David Herman, Audio Engineer and Composer Dan Dzula, Audio Engineer ZigZag comes from <a href="https://zigzagpod.com/2018/08/23/chapter-12-enter-the-mesh/" target="_blank">Stable Genius Productions</a>, in* partnership with Civil. We are proud members of <a href="https://www.radiotopia.fm/" target="_blank">Radiotopia</a>, from PRX.* Keep the podcast going with your <a href="http://zigzagpod.com/donate" target="_blank">donation</a>. And thank you! ZigZag is the business show about being human. Join a community of listeners riding the twists and turns of late-capitalism, searching for a kinder, more sustainable way. Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant investigate how work and business impact our wellbeing and the planet we live on. On Seasons 4 and 5, hear from rebels and visionaries with radical ideas on how we can build stable lives, careers, and companies. **If you’re also interested in Jen and Manoush’s personal story and their adventures in starting their own business with a little help from blockchain technology, listen to the first three seasons, starting with Season 1, Chapter 1.
