24.05.2026 –, Kino Sprache: English
Can the Master's Tools dismantle the Master's House? In this lecture we will explore the depths of corporate lobbying. What does it do to people and what makes it effective? I approach this issue as someone who has worked in EU policy for over a decade. I've seen a lot. Yet, never have I lost hope. I want to show you how we can fight back using the Master's Tools!
This talk gives hands on advice on advocacy for human rights causes in western Parliamentary structures. The presenter has worked as a digital rights activist in Brussels, Vienna and Berlin. The goal is to equip the audience with the tools necessary to bring their causes to the legislator. We will also highlight the differences and similarities between advocacy and lobbying. The goal is to share experiences of what the other side is capable of and how we as civil society can fight back.
was a programmer and anthropologist in his former life. Digital rights had been his hobby until it became a job when he intensively accompanied the EU Net Neutrality Regulation as Policy Advisor for European Digital Rights (EDRi). Thomas was one of the driving forces behind the www.savetheinternet.eu campaign and has a strong work focus on net neutrality, data protection, and mass surveillance. Since 2010 he has played an active part at epicenter.works and since 2014 he is the executive director of the association. He also writes on Netzpolitik.org, is a regular guest in the Podcast Logbuch:Netzpolitik and a non-residential Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School. He was in the board of the EU umbrella of 45+ digital rights NGOs (EDRi) and since 2024 he is Chair of the Governance Working Group of the UN dpi-safeguard initiative and member of the Jury for the German eIDAS Wallet and the Ad-Hoc Technical Advisory Group on eIDAS of the European Commission.