Swarm/Swarm Summit 2023

The importance of resisting censorship: how activists can use blockchain as a tool

Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 03:30 PM · 30:00

Panel discussion

Lou is a governance researcher exploring alternative economic, justice, and political systems to mitigate for existential challenges. Over the last six years, Lou has been accelerating visions of a technologically-advanced future with the Foresight Institute, while fostering a global, multidisciplinary, and decentralized scientific community. Through the Embassy Network and Feytopia, Lou has been developing location-based and transnationally networked communes experimenting with new forms of governance and solidarity. As a steward of a radical, decentralized abolitionist collective, Lou works on building alternative justice systems, and advocates for non-punitive, non-coercive transformations of behavior and systems.

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Mike Bonnano

Activist, performer, artist

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Scott Beibin

inventor, artist, agent, researcher, self-taught engineer, maker and do-er of things

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The importance of resisting censorship: how activists can use blockchain as a tool

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