liber-net is a digital civil liberties initiative working to re-establish free speech and civil liberties as the default standard for our networked age.
We are a growing initiative concerned about corporate and government censorship (see our Twitter Files work and mapping of the Censorship Industrial Complex), and a civil society that now advocates for speech controls under the guise of combatting “disinformation.” liber-net also aims to challenge the increasing elitism, ideological conformity, and intolerance in the digital and internet rights fields.
liber-net does this through writing, research and publication, media interventions, campaigning, events and network building. Ultimately, we are dedicated to human autonomy, dignity, and plurlaism. liber-net support and seek to enable free speech, both offline and online and support technologies which facilitate both individual agency, collective endeavor, and the free exchange and circulation of ideas.
Who We Are
Andrew Lowenthal (Director) is a leader, writer and researcher. He worked closely with Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, breaking stories on the Virality Project, the Atlantic Council, and Australia’s censorship regime, and was the lead researcher and project manager for the Censorship Industrial Complex exposé. He also helped coordinate the Westminster Declaration.
He is the co-founder and former Executive Director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights and open technology non-profit. He is a former fellow of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Film Studies Center, and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab.
He writes on Substack at Network Affects and Racket.News, and tweets at @naffects.
