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turnbull back when a couple of prime minister good ago, when he was thrown out of office, she is hoping to take the seat from the liberal party. so the center, right, incumbent there. and it's looking like she might very well do that, but i will be keeping an eye on that, but dw surgery to thank you for bringing us up to speed. well, that is all for now. next up, our digital technology program shift looking at gaming and the doc web and the issue of human rights. i'm totally illogical for myself and that thank you for with with do you meet about it?
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unfortunately, she talked and a south, a mother was going to spend the rest of her life behind bars for murdering her 3 daughters. if you could call me back with i see the site that was part of psychosis isn't awful. illness post fordham is a nasty mothers nightmare. starts june, 4th on d. w. all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. that's an article one of the united nations universal declaration of human rights. and you might think that goes without saying, but unfortunately, reality paints a different picture. how can we advocate for human rights on social media in games,
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or even on the dock web? that's our topic today on shift. ah, shoot pro democracy activists in hong kong a being arrested people in egypt, l g p t q, community face persecution, and journalist inter who report critically on the government risk imprisonment. all of these cases involve grave violations of human rights. so activists a fighting back, not just in the straits but online to like the rainy an activist massey, elena jad based in new york, she advocates for women's rights in iran and opposes forcing women to wear head scarves and the most powerful tool for doing so. social media, 1st of all, i just published a picture of myself unveiled with a caption saying that any time when i feel the wind in my hair, it just reminds me of the time. one does make her was like a hostage in the hands of the regime in iraq. and then i ask iranian people whether
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they want to do the same to challenge one of the main pillar of gender apartheid. the seo literature lives in exile in new york. or she receives titles, videos, meridian, women, not wearing head scarves, using the hash type white wednesdays. the social media campaign has grown into a high profile movement. the concept is for women to fill themselves every wednesday, wearing or removing white head scarves to protest the compulsory which are blowing around. messina, chad is a well known activist who has a mass millions of followers sorta clips of global re. my walk, our instagram, twitter, facebook, all the social media. i think i launch another campaign which is called my camera is my weapon. it means when the government harassed you or bully, you, you have your camera, you can expose them. and the regime is
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a scared of this campaign because this is how people are gaining. they voice back. i, her social media campaigns, give women a platform and highlight her, their rights are being violated. now they don't even dare to tell in color solid because they know that women are brave enough to say that this is none of your business decided for yourself. and that's that shipment of the campaign. now the regime discount with an impressive example of how to wield social media to foster meaningful change. raising awareness is absolutely crucial if you want to take action against human rights violations. and the gaming sub genre of series games helps to do just that.
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these games are not solely meant to entertain. that also designed to convey information about serious topics, a dw digital, we went ahead and tried out the concept outs. he developed a low budget game that shows players what it's like to live in a country where you don't enjoy all freedoms. it's called freedom isn't freight. you can play on messaging apps such as telegram by chatting with bought. and it shows just how crucial it is to have free access to information. millions of people are living in a prison. no free press. and north river, right? switched off already heard that before when to get people like you interested in how it is like to live in an oppressive region which i had a different approach. this game is designed to shed some light on what living in an oppressive regime is really like the setting is a fictional surveillance state. and you, friend,
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mia has disappeared in berlin. a mutual friend reaches out asking for your help. you live in freedom and have free access to the internet, so you have to help find mia. the games chat format is meant to give uses a real life feel. image yawn sizes are pretty deeply immersed and because it's very similar to how we normally use our cell phones, we're used to chatting with people every day. what else comes as it is a compelling project because it draws and aspects from your everyday life. only thing of them put unit totally new situation with a completely different narrative and parameters under another. that's what makes us approach incredibly exciting and interesting. when hamish bundled until sunday, how is an idea on paper transformed into a game and what's the best programming platform? the gaming experts and project partners from the hiv game hobbit berlin's university of applied sciences recommended using rasa,
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an open source platform for chat bots. the software uses artificial intelligence to interpret plays messages. the aim is for conversations with the chat box elisa to feel as realistic as possible and to show please what it is like for people who are denied free access to information and the internet in the game. i am mia. can you help find out what happened to me play our game now on? you were messenger? that's right. you can play the game in facebook messenger or telegram. just enter the corresponding link or scan the q r code that will take you straight to a chat where you can then start playing the games in english. so check it out. and if you do figure out what happened to me up, then shoot us a message where giving away an i phone 11 to one lucky player as a thank you for taking part. if you want to get in on the action, go to d, w dot com slash freedom game to find out more. meanwhile,
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the london based research agency forensic architecture has been drawing attention to human rights violations in a completely new way. for instance, the team constructs models of prisons where people have been detained and tortured . it does so based off interviews with former prisoners, the idea is to help visualize the situation to better expose these types of violence. and the group often shows their work to the public at exhibitions. forensic architecture uses methods like 3 d modeling, remote sensing and data mining to try to uncover war crimes and human rights violations. findings are published online as well as exhibited at museums. the london based research group aims to push back against propaganda. it sees presenting evidence to the public as a form of resistance. we live in the propaganda where it is about breaking your world view at all where you no longer know what could be right
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and what could be wrong. how truth and how facts could be established. what forensic activists need to learn how to do is to slowly piece together this rubble, those bits that were destroyed and piece it slowly together to reconstruct some of our dignity in some, in the truth of, of the facts which we know what happened to us. yelled weitzman and his team and forensic architecture use publicly available information to reconstruct various events whether that be a bomb exclusion or the killing of a single person like the kurdish human rights lawyer tahita chief using video footage, which often comes from social media. he can piece together and architectural mottled. the can then toggle between different perspectives to the european center for constitutional and human rights. and berlin also relies in this technology. the organization has collaborated with forensic architecture to
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determine which arms manufacturers are supplying weapons to the warring factions. he entered, gathering this kind of intelligence is vital during war. military's believe they have a monopoly over information in the battlefield. they have the drones and satellites and spies on the ground. and in the lot of cameras, a high tech cameras, but citizens have to and now we are able by combining and looking at those images by developing a visual literacy that allow us to understand what it is that we see. and this then how to connect one image to the next and build a counter narrative. the team uses artificial intelligence to analyze countless videos. this makes it easier to track troop movements or identify tanks, for example, like here during fighting eastern ukraine in 2014. this helps forensic architecture draw conclusions about the true sequence of events. and they want to share their
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knowledge for us to make evidence politically still make it public. we do not want evidence to be trapped within the bureaucracy of the law alone in this week. forensic architecture is trying to cast light on and rectify human rights violations across the globe. when you're campaigning for human rights, it's important to take precautions to stay safe from persecution. one place you can find safety, which may surprise some paypal is the dark web. it takes special software to connect to the dock web, the program hines, a uses ip address, keeping identity and location secret. the dock webs anonymous nature makes it appealing for criminals to buy and sell weapons or drugs. but journalists, activists, and people who are politically persecuted also benefit from conceiving their ip addresses. they can access regionally blocked content and communicate without
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leaving any traces. if dr. smushed with misty, shrill mentioned didn't youngblood dark lead is important to people who are prevented from expressing their sexual orientation, for example, to show or for disabilities. jordan's persecuted religious groups and so forth. mid, high us. it helps people who are unable to live freely. it were monitored and tracked online and bubba and who would run into trouble and good one of if their online activities were recorded. most likely markesha did, which no one way of accessing the dock web is through the tall web browser. it encrypts traffic multiple times and conceals a uses identity location. that way uses can access websites that have blocked in their country. deutsch of ellis content is also available via tool ensuring as many people as possible have free access to information. another way of circumventing online censorship is to use a factual private network o v p
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n. it also hides loses ip addresses after facebook and instagram were blocked in russia, in the wake of the countries invasion into ukraine, the number of v p and downloads skyrocketed. by the way, deutsch avella is partnered with a trustworthy vpn provider from canada to help you bypass censorship. it takes just one quick in the dw, up to activate a proxy, and access content is otherwise blocked in some regions. so there are many digital tools out there that can help safeguard human rights. and there are also many impressive activists and organizations doing important work to draw attention to violations. how about you? are you helping campaigned for human rights? and if so help, we'd love to hear from you join the conversation and drop as a comment on youtube or brought us an e mail. that's all for now. seen. excellent. ah
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