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The Private Citizen
Fabian A. Scherschel
168 episodes
8 months ago
Veteran technology journalist Fabian A. Scherschel covers the most important threats to our personal liberties, privacy rights and freedom of speech. In reporting on these issues, he draws from a decade of experience in reporting on information security topics, mixed with a healthy dose of journalism critique. The show places a particular emphasis on stories and viewpoints that have been ignored in the legacy media.
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Veteran technology journalist Fabian A. Scherschel covers the most important threats to our personal liberties, privacy rights and freedom of speech. In reporting on these issues, he draws from a decade of experience in reporting on information security topics, mixed with a healthy dose of journalism critique. The show places a particular emphasis on stories and viewpoints that have been ignored in the legacy media.
Show more...
Politics
Technology,
News,
Tech News,
News Commentary
Episodes (20/168)
The Private Citizen
Episode 168: The TikTok Law
Is the so-called TikTok law a tool to enable the US President to censor apps and websites at will? Yes and no. One thing is certain: This law isn't about TikTok; that's just a smokescreen.
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1 year ago
2 hours 2 minutes 38 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 167: The Death of Serious Politics
Political scientist Brian Klaas looks into why we talk so much about politics, but never actually discuss any actual policy. My critique of his analysis is rather predictable.
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1 year ago
1 hour 21 minutes 21 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 166: The Twitter Files, Part 6
Revisiting the idiotic decision to ban Donald Trump off Twitter and what it means for the future of democracy that private companies started to influence public discourse like that and got away with it.
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1 year ago
1 hour 58 minutes 25 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 165: I Ate'nt Dead
I explain why this show went on an unplanned hiatus and once again vow to get back into the swing of things.
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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes 10 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 164: The Year 2023 in Review
In my annual recap episode, I am looking back at the topics that I've covered this year and forward to the changes that 2024 will bring for the podcast.
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1 year ago
1 hour 10 minutes 47 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 163: Back to the Twitter Files
The reporters from the Twitter Files project just won the Dao Prize for excellence in investigative journalism. Could there be a better time to dive back into these stories?
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2 years ago
1 hour 28 minutes 47 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 162: The Westminster Declaration
What do Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, John Cleese, Yanis Varoufakis, Richard Dawkins and Walter Kirn have in common? They are all, despite holding very different political beliefs, very concerned about the future of political discourse in Western democracies.
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2 years ago
1 hour 44 minutes 43 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 161: The EU's Ministry of Truth
EU bureaucrats maintain that the Digital Services Act is not a censorship regime, but is meant to save people from misinformation by deleting it from the internet or hiding it from view. Which, in fact, is the very definition of censorship. Welcome to the Cardassian Union.
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2 years ago
1 hour 58 minutes 1 second

The Private Citizen
Episode 160: The Lobbyists Behind Chat Control
It turns out, that the EU's push to completely abolish digital privacy might not actually be an altruistic move to save children from abuse. Several tech companies, including one headed by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, stand to profit substantially from the decision. Which is why they massively influenced it.
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2 years ago
2 hours 10 minutes 51 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 159: Society Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket
How following the exodus of Germany's worst YouTuber to TikTok opened a private hell of lolcows for me. To a point where I don't think I understand society as a whole anymore. What is this shit? And where is it all going to end?
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2 years ago
1 hour 21 minutes 24 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 158: The EU Wants to Abolish Digital Privacy
The EU wants to establish universal client-side scanning for text messages and photos on citizen's phones. With other words: All cryptography would be useless and hence, nobody would have any privacy in the digital realm anymore.
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2 years ago
1 hour 37 minutes 5 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 157: When Well-Meaning People Make the Laws
Germany tried to make its laws against child pornography stricter and it backfired spectacularly. Now, lawyers and judges are desperately trying not to enforce these laws as the government scrambles to fix them.
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2 years ago
1 hour 24 minutes 58 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 156: The Widening Gyre
I'm back in the saddle. Well, at least partially. An explanation of what happened and some new developments in the Modern Solution case from a few years ago.
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2 years ago
1 hour 13 minutes 46 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 155: The Twitter Files, Part 5
The podcast returns with more coverage of The Twitter Files. On this episode, I am discussing how the US government used the FBI to exert censorship control over Twitter and many other tech companies to reinforce government narratives and silence critics.
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2 years ago
2 hours 16 minutes 20 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 154: The Democratic Delusion
Many people seem to think that the democratic system of government extends beyond how the state is run and into civil society. In this episode, I advance the theory that this has caused a lot of people to fall prey to propaganda and misunderstand how journalistic reporting and scientific enquiry should be done.
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2 years ago
1 hour 32 minutes 57 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 153: Another Nord Stream Theory
The Danes say they have proof that the Russians blew up Nord Stream. But the fact that they want to keep this proof secret makes me think it does not exist and the whole thing is another attempt to distract people from Seymour Hersh's original reporting.
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2 years ago
58 minutes 55 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 152: The Discord Leaks
Instead of working with him to uncover hidden government secrets about the US proxy war in Ukraine, The New York Times and Bellingcat sold out Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to the authorities. The kid's now facing a lifetime in prison.
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2 years ago
1 hour 53 minutes 22 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 151: Musk Kills the Twitter Files
When Substack launched what Musk interpreted as a Twitter competitor, the billionaire tried to force journalist Matt Taibbi to leave the publishing platform behind in favour of Twitter. When Taibbi declined, Musk declared The Twitter Files to be done and dusted.
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2 years ago
1 hour 20 minutes 54 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 150: The Twitter Files, Part 4
During the pandemic, Twitter and other social networks censored dissidents and suppressed factually true stories to reinforce government propaganda and the interests of multi-billion-dollar companies with respect to SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines to combat it.
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2 years ago
1 hour 44 minutes 4 seconds

The Private Citizen
Episode 149: The Nord Stream Cover-Up
To cover up Seymour Hersh's report, the CIA planted a fake story about the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage with the press. Chancellor Scholz might even have discussed this cover-up with President Biden in person.
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2 years ago
1 hour 21 minutes 11 seconds

The Private Citizen
Veteran technology journalist Fabian A. Scherschel covers the most important threats to our personal liberties, privacy rights and freedom of speech. In reporting on these issues, he draws from a decade of experience in reporting on information security topics, mixed with a healthy dose of journalism critique. The show places a particular emphasis on stories and viewpoints that have been ignored in the legacy media.