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Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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

April 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.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
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February 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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

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February 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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

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February 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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

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February 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

@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
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February 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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

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February 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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

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February 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

Our fourth interview for the day is Taiwanese activist Kuan-Ju Chou from the Taiwan Association for Human Rights.
#RightsCon2025 @brettsolomon.bsky.social #thisweekincyberspace

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7.4 - Kuan-Ju Chou at RightsCon 2025 by This Week In Cyberspace

Taiwan has endured the world’s longest Marshall Law - 37 years - under Chinese rule. Kuan-Ju Chou is from the Taiwan Association for Human Rights and she is at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei. It's the first...

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February 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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.
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February 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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February 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM

Nell Schofield

@nellschofield.bsky.social

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
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