In his study of truth telling in ancient Greece, the philosopher Michel Foucault pointed out that the act of truth telling cannot be reduced to citizens learning something that they did not know before.

Well, here's a list of them. They're hard to tell, but there's one billion PC chips on the Internet, if you count all the chips in all the computers on the Internet.

I was trying to get them to say what they probably wanted to say, to break out of their own cocoon of the public self, and the more public they had been, the more entrenched that person, that outer person was.

In a message published May 9, 2016 on digital documents hosting site YouScribe, Debost explained the reasons which pushed her firstly to keep silent and then to publicly condemn the humiliation she was subjected to.

We still clutch close these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long.