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With the internet, so the logic went, there would be nowhere for governments to hide, the facts would be out there, beyond the control of the censors. Brainwashing would soon become a relic of the past. Seventeen years later no one could have anticipated the remarkable success of the Chinese state at suppressing the internet, but that is only part of the story. The greater irony is that even in the free West the internet has gone from saviour of truth to the great bête noire, the prime home of ‘post truth’.

Ben Ryan | Read the full article at Christian Today

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