How to Resist the Censorship Apparatus

American Thought Leaders | Insider Andrew Lowenthal [12/2023]

For over a decade, Mr. Lowenthal worked to foster online free expression in South Asia and combat disinformation from state actors. He witnessed first-hand how the very organizations in the West, once suspicious of government surveillance infrastructure, suddenly signed up to be part of it.
“This is the new weird world that we live in. Essentially, this kind-of neocon war on terror, [with a] massive amount of surveillance infrastructure that was built up, is then kind-of turned into this ‘countering populism’ infrastructure that the left, which previously were the people who were most suspicious of the war on terror and the various agencies that became extremely bloated under that banner, have now signed up to be to be part of,” says Mr. Lowenthal.