“One day they might come for you”
Digital rights activist Andrew Lowenthal on progressives' support for the censorship-industrial complex

Thomas Fazi

Aug 05, 2024

In this guest post, Maike Gosch, a German communication strategist, writer and former lawyer — whose article on the banning of the German magazine Compact I published recently — interviews Andrew Lowenthal, the founder and managing director of the digital civil liberties organisation liber-net.

Lowenthal is an Australian digital rights activist of German-Jewish descent. For almost 18 years he was the Executive Director of EngageMedia, an Asia-based NGO focused on human rights online, freedom of expression and open technology. The digital rights environment in which Lowenthal spent most of his adult life was avowedly progressive — as was Lowenthal himself.

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