It would not really help, as one security researcher explained to me, if you disguised your identity online only to write a political screed in a style and voice that could only be attributed to you. Writers are unique in that many of us seek to cultivate a readership, and becoming a public figure in a repressive regime can protect you from being killed. Many of them rely upon open source code, which is available for the tech community to scrutinize and improve. These vary from mobile phone applications to web browsers, and they are being created all over the world in tech hubs as far afield as Tunisia, Thailand, Germany, Kenya, and the United States. In response to these threats, a variety of effective tools have been developed to help people use digital media securely and anonymously. The rapid development of new technologies suggests that this trend may continue as more writers express themselves on Twitter, Facebook-or whatever medium is dreamed up next.
At PEN, we documented this rise through a 12 year analysis of our caselist, and found that the number of writers persecuted for their use of digital media has skyrocketed from about 6 percent of our caselist in 2000 to nearly 50 percent in 2013.
The human rights community has known for some time that digital technologies can be used to surveil and persecute dissidents.
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