Milosz Matuschek is the Deputy editor-in-chief at the Schweizer Monat and is an expert on the subjects of press freedom and whistleblowers. The Anonymous Bites Back team live streamed an interesting interview with him where he explains about these subjects.
Milosz grew up as a repatriate in Germany. He studied law and social sciences in Munich, Paris and Regensburg. In 2007 he passed his first legal exam and obtained the French degrees "License" and "Maîtrise" in law from the Université Panthéon-Assas.
He was a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, later also its liaison lecturer, but resigned from the mandate. From 2008 to 2011 Matuschek did his doctorate in criminal law at the University of Regensburg under Tonio Walter, receiving a scholarship from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. His dissertation under the title Criminal Law of Remembrance: A New Justification of the Ban on Holocaust Denial on a Comparative Law and Social Philosophical Basis was published later.
For research in the field of foreign and international criminal law, he worked in Freiburg im Breisgau, Krakow, Paris and Berlin. From 2010 to 2012 he was a trainee lawyer at the Berlin Court of Appeal, where he passed his second state examination in law. He then taught as a DAAD specialist lecturer for five years, including German law and comparative law at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. As a freelance journalist he wrote in, among other things, the daily newspaper, the Jewish General, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt and Cicero.
Under the alias “Dr. Strangelove ”he ran a blog about modern love for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 2014 to 2016. From 2014 to the beginning of September 2020 Matuschek was a columnist and regular author of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He fought actively for the release of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In his NZZ column from July 2019, he asked whether the Western community of values still existed.
In September 2020, together with the publicist Gunnar Kaiser, he initiated the appeal for free debate spaces, which campaigns against cancel culture and for free debate spaces.
This Anonymous Bites Back broadcast gives you a lot of details about the Cypherpunk movement and it’s history. The Cypherpunks originate as a community surrounding a mailing list. It consists of activists who specialize in free software, privacy and of course human rights on the internet. Together with our panel, Milosz Matuschek will explain about this movement.
Next to that a lot of time is spent on discussing the case of Julian Assange, the incarcerated journalist and Cypherpunk who faces possible extradition to the United States for publishing about war crimes committed by the US army in Iraq.
Julian Assange could be looking a 175 years of imprisonment for doing journalistic work. An international movement of activists are attempting to stop this from happening.
If you are interested in these subjects or care about your human rights, it will be worth your time to listen to this broadcast.
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