Introducing 14 year/old Torin, winner of the Grommets section of the Byron Bay Bluesfest Busking competition hosted by me and Dim Sim with Danny also from @bayfm999.bsky.social

Maryam Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja is a Bahraini-Danish human rights activist. She is the daughter of Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and former co-director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights. #RightsCon2025 @brettsolomon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0Y0R...

Roger Dingledine is an American computer scientist known for having co-founded the @torproject.bsky.social and he still works there as a project Leader, Director, and Research Director. #RightsCon2025 @brettsolomon.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

Gbenga Sesa is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative, a non-profit organisation that works to connect under-served young Africans with digital opportunities. @gbengasesan.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social #rightscon2025 open.spotify.com/episode/2fxP...

Costanza Sciubba Caniglia is an expert in information integrity and leads @wikimediafoundation.org ’s anti-disinformation strategy.  Wikipedia relies on 250,000 volunteers worldwide. @costanzasciubba.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social #rightscon2025 spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/ak7j3QAXjRb

Chihhao Yu is a software engineer and co-director of the Taiwan Information Environment Research Center where he works to safeguard election integrity and build democratic resilience in Taiwan. #rightscon2025 @chihhhhhao.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

Charles Mok is a Research Scholar at the Global Digital Policy Incubator of the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University, and withthe International Centre for Trade Transparency and Monitoring.  @charlesmok.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social #rightscon2025 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

Aws Al-Saadi is an advisory board member of International Fact-Checking Network and the Founder and President of Tech4Peace. He talks to TWICS about the rise of fake news and how to counter it. @2awsy.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social #RightsCon2025 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

Hadi Al Khatib, an archivist and activist who’s been collecting, verifying, and investigating citizen-generated data as evidence of human rights violations through The Syrian Archive since 2011. @brettsolomon.bsky.social #rRightsCon2025 open.spotify.com/episode/3o33...

Tetiana Avdieieva is a Senior Legal Counsel at Digital Security Lab in Ukraine. She’s also a member of the Expert Committee on Artificial Intelligence under the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. #rRghtsCon2025 @brettsolomon.bsky.social #ukraine creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

@liaholland.bsky.social is from @fightfortheftr.bsky.social a group of artists, engineers, activists & technologists fighting for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression @brettsolomon.bsky.social #rightscon2025 open.spotify.com/episode/7DXa...

E-ling Chiu is the Executive Director at @amnesty.org Taiwan where #RightsCon2025 is currently underway. She is also a Board Member on the Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan. @brettsolomon.bsky.social @eelingchiu.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

David Kaye is a clinical professor of law at the University of California,where he teaches international human rights law and international humanitarian law. He was also UN Special Rapporteur #hero @davidkaye.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social #RightsCon2025 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

Aymen Zaghdoudi is Access Now’s Middle East and North Africa Senior Policy Counsel.  He is also an assistant Professor at the Institute of Press and Information Sciences in Tunisia. @zaghdoudist.bsky.social #rightscon2025 @brettsolomon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0u0i...

Betsy Popken is the ED of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law where she directs the Climate Justice program, and the human rights impacts of General large language models. #thisweekincyberspace @brettsolomon.bsky.social #rightscon2025 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

Antonio Zappulla is CEO at the Thomson Reuters Foundation and in 2022 he was knighted as an Officer of the Italian Republic. We talk with him about LGBTQ rights in the digital age and how to protect NGOs from legal challenges. @brettsolomon.bsky.social #RightsCon2025 open.spotify.com/episode/0CYg...

Natalia Krapiva is the tech-legal Counsel with @accessnow.org She's been fighting NSO Group to try to limit the sale and use of spyware and recently set a precedent in the Californian Courts. @natynettle.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social #rightscon2025 open.spotify.com/episode/5Lvx...

Our fourth interview for the day is Taiwanese activist Kuan-Ju Chou from the Taiwan Association for Human Rights. #RightsCon2025 @brettsolomon.bsky.social #thisweekincyberspace creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thi...

One of the featured thought leaders at the opening ceremony of RightsCon 2025 was Htaike Htaike Aung, the Executive Director at Myanmar Internet Communication Technologies for Development Organization  or MIDO. @myanmarip.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6ZgM...

Henri Verdier is the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs and was instrumental in last week’s AI Action Summit hosted by Macron. We spoke with him at #RightsCon2025 in #Taipei @henriverdier.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3L7u...

Mohammed al-Maskati is one of the 3,200 people participating live at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei. He is a Bahraini human rights activist who works with AccessNow as the Digital Security Helpline Director. @mohdmaskati.bsky.social @brettsolomon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0Stf...

A fabulous article by our Saint Bob. @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The world must push back hard against the rise of authoritarianism @justsecurity.org

Hope you don't mind! #twics6.5

Just pushing a few of these episodes out there ahead of #rightscon2025 #twics6.4

Hi friends! In our first episode for 2025 we critique the New World Disorder. #TWICS #newworlddisorder

Thank you @risingtideaus.bsky.social for hosting such a powerful peaceful protest at the worlds biggest coal port in Newcastle over the weekend. Creative, effective and so empowering in these dark days. Onwards to more real climate action!

Hi there y'all. I've been deleted off FB and Insta for no reason that I can think of and am happy to now be here for some fresh air and online adventures. Here is my podcast for your listening pleasure. See you in the future!