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

- Speakers: [Lou de Kerhuelvez](https://streameth.org/speakers/lou-de-kerhuelvez), [Mike Bonnano](https://streameth.org/speakers/mike-bonnano), [Scott Beibin](https://streameth.org/speakers/scott-beibin)
- Event: [Swarm Summit 2023](https://streameth.org/swarm/swarm_summit_2023), Virtual
- Channel: [Swarm](https://streameth.org/swarm)
- Date: 2023-06-22
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/65b8f8d2a5b2d09b88ec150c

## About the speakers

### Lou de Kerhuelvez

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.

### Mike Bonnano

Activist, performer, artist

### Scott Beibin

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