Andrew Lowenthal | Digital Civil Liberties | CEO: liber-net.org |
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Burnham is launching a new “National Centre for Information Defence” to disrupt disinformation from hostile states.
Hostile states like Russia and China are certainly waging disinfo campaigns here. The UK also wages information campaigns overseas. BUT…
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Australia's proposed Digital Duty of Care allows the government to create "sock puppet" accounts and collect information on you without consent. With thanks to @MikeNayna who prepared @liber_net's exposure draft submission liber-net.org/liber-net-subm…
Australia’s proposed Digital Duty of Care Bill will dramatically expand eSafety’s investigative powers, including the authority to operate “sock puppet” accounts & collect sensitive information without consent. I went through the Bill with @liber_net. Here’s what we found. 🧵
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Look closely at this woman. She wants to censor the entire global Internet with the “eSafety Minister,” who has been trying to do this for years. If their new censorship bill becomes law, these two women will be able to censor any content they say “may cause serious harm.”
INTERNET CENSORSHIP: Watch Communications minister Anika Wells explain that she gets to decide what will be banned on the internet. Watch
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🚨BREAKING🚨
We've just installed giant billboards in London to stop the censorship crisis in Britain - pushing back censorial laws & speech policing.
@andyburnham launch a free speech reset now.
Join the fight to restore free speech in Britain⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/
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Thank you for the great conversation @FabioDeMasi
Ich sprach vor einigen Wochen mit @@naffects Andrew Lowenthal, der sich mit seiner Organisation Liber net gegen den „Zensur-Industrie-Komplex“ wehrt über die Regulierung des Internets und Angriffe auf die Meinungsfreiheit
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Raising concerns about energy prices and reliability is a form of "misinformation" according to the Commonwealth's Climate Change Authority.
Via @FootnotesGuy
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Our llatest Substack is a guest article by @MaikeGosch :
* Why the fight to preserve freedom of expression is not a matter of Left or Right
open.substack.com/pub/4thgen…
A guest article and commentary by Maike Gosch calling for trans-partisan solidarity against free speech suppressions.
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DOCUMENTS: Emails released last night by DNI @TulsiGabbard show Biden officials buried a whistleblower report of Fauci lying to @SenRandPaul during HELP hearings.
Instead of forwarding the complaint to the HHS IG or Senate HELP, it was sent Fauci's Boss @XavierBecerra.
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Meinungsfreiheit ist die Grundlage einer freiheitlichen Gesellschaft. Das immer repressivere & autoritärere Vorgehen gegen Andersdenkende ist Gift für die Demokratie & zerstört die politische Debatte. Daher habe ich diese wichtige Initiative unterzeichnet.
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The UK government has come up with a terrifying new proposal to create a Ministry of Truth: a "National Counter Disinformation Centre" with "a whole-of-society approach" to "identify and combat foreign information manipulation". Among their concerns is the "high bar" required to prove that disinformation was created at the "behest of a foreign power" meaning they want to the power to sweep up citizen dissent in their disinformation definition.
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The proposal also explicit seeks to increase the BBC's capacity for "hybrid warfare", proposing to increase its funding "drawn in part from the defence budget" to leverage the "UK’s soft power" to "counter information warfare."
Its good to see some honesty about what the BBC actually is, however explicitly weaponising it will only further tarnish its already diminished reputation and lack of trust in its reporting.
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Huzzah! The consent decree in Missouri v. Biden is a historic victory for free speech in the US. Though I had to switch to the government side in the case after I became NIH director, I've never been more pleased by "losing" in my life. A huge win for all Americans.
We just won Missouri v. Biden.
As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people.
Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech.
Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big.
This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked.
For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.
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On Missouri v. Biden, you can read the Consent Decree for yourself. It is a mutual agreement, and such things are never clean and overwhelming victories. The plaintiffs have the edge, 51% vs 49%, that is true. And that is good, even wonderful. But don't look for a rousing victory for the first amendment. You won't find it. It's the best the plaintiffs could get and good for them.
N.B. the victors on both sides are the lawyers.
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Government jawboning is wrong — whether the pressure is coming from a Republican administration or a Democratic one. While this settlement may provide some limited protection and is a step in the right direction, much more needs to be done to limit jawboning.
Congress must pass legislation to end the practice for good by allowing Americans to hold federal officials personally accountable in court for censoring their speech through jawboning.
Congress must also increase transparency in the government’s communications to social media companies and other speech platforms so that Americans are not left in the dark when their speech is censored by federal officials behind closed doors.
How? We have some thoughts. ⬇️
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In 2023, Missouri sued Biden’s admin for colluding with Big Tech to censor speech. I signed Missouri's amicus brief.
We won! @CDCgov, @Surgeon_General, & @CISAgov can no longer deplatform First Amendment-protected speech.
Congrats to @SenEricSchmitt for leading the fight!
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BREAKING: NCLA reaches historic settlement in Missouri v. Biden, striking a major blow against government-induced social media censorship.
CDC, CISA and the U.S. Surgeon General are now barred from threatening social media companies into censoring constitutionally protected speech on their platforms.
This is a major First Amendment victory earned by our clients @AaronKheriatyMD and Jill Hines of @HealthFreedomLA
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BREAKING: I am delighted to report that we finally achieved victory today in Missouri v. Biden, our case challenging government censorship on social media.
CDC, CISA and the U.S. Surgeon General are now barred from threatening social media companies into censoring constitutionally protected speech on their platforms.
Details here in the press release... nclalegal.org/press_release/…
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We just won Missouri v. Biden.
As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people.
Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech.
Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big.
This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked.
For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.
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Australia Is the World's Lab Rat for Internet Censorship
Andrew Lowenthal (@NAffects) exposes how Australia quietly became the world's testing ground for digital censorship and now it's exporting that model globally. From age verification laws to misinformation bills, he breaks down how "safety" rhetoric is being used to hand governments sweeping power over online speech.
And the scariest part? The UK, EU, and California are already taking notes.
Full episode below.
🎙️ Why Censorship Is A Panic Response
Ep. 126 with @NAffects
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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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
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🎙️ Why Censorship Is A Panic Response
Ep. 126 with @NAffects
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.
→ Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you!
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
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