liber-net CEO Andrew Lowenthal Speaks to the EU Parliament
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In June 2025, Andrew Lowenthal was invited by MEP Ondřej Dostál to speak at a meeting of the EU Parliament alongside Irish MEP Clare Daly.
Lowenthal, liber-net’s founder and a long-time digital rights activist, called for safeguarding civil liberties in an age of digital overreach, and underscored how escalating restrictions on discourse—for example, through censorship algorithms, de-platforming, and overbroad moderation policies—are posing an existential threat to freedom of expression.
Drawing on his experience in authoritarian countries in southeast Asia, Lowenthal warned about the rise of the “censorship industrial complex” and expressed deep concern that Western democracies, especially the U.S. and EU, are now using their advanced infrastructure to implement censorship regimes under the guise of countering disinformation.
“What I’m seeing in the West is in some ways worse than Myanmar or Indonesia — they didn’t have the technical means for totalizing speech repression. But here, those means are available and growing daily with AI and other tools.”
