Why Censorship Is A Panic Response - Andrew Lowenthal | Ep. 126

Andrew Lowenthal is CEO of Liber-net and an Australian digital civil liberties researcher with over 25 years in human rights and technology. He led Engaged Media, worked with Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, and mapped the censorship industrial complex for Racket News. Andrew writes about digital authoritarianism, surveillance, and free expression. Recently he testified before the EU Parliament and continues exposing how legacy institutions bleeding trust respond with censorship rather than transparency.

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– CHAPTERS – 

00:00 - Coming Up... 

01:17 - Intro  to Andrew Lowenthal 

03:30 - Censorship Status in USA, Australia, UK, Europe 

08:50 - The Political Shift in Australia & “One Nation” Party

13:05 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Trezor 

19:05 - Australia's Age Verification Law & Substack's Voluntary Compliance 

23:11 - The New Hate Speech Law, Bondi Attack & Gov. Overreach 

33:00 - Australia’s Hate Speech Laws History

36:55 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines & New Totalitarian Order Conference 

39:14 - Mapping the Censorship Industrial Complex 

45:20 - Speech Police Via NGOs & Government Funding

50:10 - Australia’s e-Safety Office: Policing Speech & Node In Global Censorship Industrial Complex

59:40 - Australia’s Economical Downturn & Recession

1:01:50 - Censorship As Part of UN’s Agenda 2030

1:04:49 - 2017 Council of Europe Document & Germany Censorship Analysis

1:11:11 - Are Speech Crimes Now Treated On Par With Violent Crimes?

1:17:23 - Bitcoin & Nostr: Decentralized, Censorship Resistant Protocols 

1:22:54 - The End Game: Keeping Legacy Parties in Power 

1:28:30 - Follow Andrew's Work