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Sam Lowe is Campaigner in the Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland Food, Land and Water Security Programme and tweets as @SamuelMarcLowe

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Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

Representation is no longer enough - A Q&A with Michel Bauwens
Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
What would Twitter be if it adopted Wikipedia’s politics?
Jimmy Tidey
Algorithms: the villains and heroes of the ‘post-truth’ era
David Beer
Expanding state power in times of ‘surveillance realism’: how the UK got a ‘world-leading’ surveillance law
Arne Hintz and Lina Dencik
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled against the UK government, but will they listen?
Nik Williams
Catalonian lessons: civil society has something to offer on the gaming tables of governance
Simona Levi
Out of prison, Barrett Brown recommits himself to agitating against existing order
Brian Sonenstein
Digital democracy and technological sovereignty
Evgeny Morozov, Francesca Bria and Richard Barbrook

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

What we talk about when we talk about TTIP

Sam Lowe 5 November 2015

Both pro and anti-TTIP camps have pitched their tents, but their respective points of reference are worlds apart. We need to be clear about what exactly we're discussing here.