1:1 with Thomas Lohninger

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📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:09] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[02:18] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[05:16] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[09:45] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[11:01] Outro

📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Thomas Lohninger | Executive Director, epicenter.works
🐦 https://twitter.com/socialhack
🌐 Net Neutrality: Myths from the Telecom Industry and Responses from Civil Society - A Guide to the Debate about Network Access Fees aka. “Fair Share” (November, 2022)
🌐 epicenter.works
🌐 European Digital Rights (EDRi)
🌐 Savetheinternet.eu
🌐 Center for Internet & Society (Stanford Law School)
🌐 Thomas Lohninger

Thomas Lohninger 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. Since 2019 he is in the board of EDRi and since 2020 Vice President of the EU umbrella of digital rights NGOs.