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	In an era defined by simultaneous crises — hybrid warfare, AI-driven information manipulation, geopolitical realignments, and deepening societal polarisation — the ability to speak uncomfortable truths has become both rarer and more vital. Authoritarian regimes weaponise digital shutdowns and surveillance, while in open societies, selective outrage, institutional gatekeeping, and well-intentioned paternalism risk narrowing the very spaces where dissent and nuance can thrive.This is the urgent context for Digitality and Empowerment 2.0: Encoding Empowerment, a powerful follow-up lecture by Schoresch Davoodi and Babak Tubis (BlackLonelyWolf). It builds directly on Davoodi’s acclaimed 2025 talk “Digitality and Maturity” (Digitalität und Mündigkeit) at the Tübinger Tage der digitalen Freiheit (TDF), an annual Chaos-community event focused on self-empowerment and digital freedom. Schoresch Davoodi is a political analyst, activist, and foreign policy expert with Kurdish-Iranian paternal and Czech maternal heritage. He serves as Alternate Board Member of Pirate Parties International (PPI) for the 2025–2027 term. His work centres on hybrid threats, information warfare, digital rights, and democratic resilience in an age of uncertainty. He has spoken at events including the Pirate Security Conference, Hack the Promise Festival in Basel, and the Tübinger Tage der digitalen Freiheit 2025. Babak Tubis is a long-serving member of the Pirate movement and current Beisitzer on the federal board of Piratenpartei Deutschland. He focuses on digital civil liberties, individual freedom, inclusive participation, and strengthening Pirate structures.Together, they deliver a clear-eyed analysis that refuses easy binaries. They examine how democracies risk eroding their own openness through fear-driven control mechanisms (such as aspects of the DSA, Trusted Flaggers, or AI regulation), while movements originally dedicated to freedom can inadvertently adopt dogmatic or paternalistic structures —		In an era defined by simultaneous crises — hybrid warfare, AI-driven information manipulation, geopolitical realignments, and deepening societal polarisation — the ability to speak uncomfortable truths has become both rarer and more vital. Authoritarian regimes weaponise digital shutdowns and surveillance, while in open societies, selective outrage, institutional gatekeeping, and well-intentioned paternalism risk narrowing the very spaces where dissent and nuance can thrive.This is the urgent context for Digitality and Empowerment 2.0: Encoding Empowerment, a powerful follow-up lecture by Schoresch Davoodi and Babak Tubis (BlackLonelyWolf). It builds directly on Davoodi’s acclaimed 2025 talk “Digitality and Maturity” (Digitalität und Mündigkeit) at the Tübinger Tage der digitalen Freiheit (TDF), an annual Chaos-community event focused on self-empowerment and digital freedom. Schoresch Davoodi is a political analyst, activist, and foreign policy expert with Kurdish-Iranian paternal and Czech maternal heritage. He serves as Alternate Board Member of Pirate Parties International (PPI) for the 2025–2027 term. His work centres on hybrid threats, information warfare, digital rights, and democratic resilience in an age of uncertainty. He has spoken at events including the Pirate Security Conference, Hack the Promise Festival in Basel, and the Tübinger Tage der digitalen Freiheit 2025. Babak Tubis is a long-serving member of the Pirate movement and current Beisitzer on the federal board of Piratenpartei Deutschland. He focuses on digital civil liberties, individual freedom, inclusive participation, and strengthening Pirate structures.Together, they deliver a clear-eyed analysis that refuses easy binaries. They examine how democracies risk eroding their own openness through fear-driven control mechanisms (such as aspects of the DSA, Trusted Flaggers, or AI regulation), while movements originally dedicated to freedom can inadvertently adopt dogmatic or paternalistic structures exemplified by debates around organisations like HateAid.
	exemplified by debates around organisations like HateAid.

	Why This Lecture Matters Now		Why This Lecture Matters Now
	The timing aligns closely with PPI’s early 2026 resolution on “Solidarity with the Iranian Freedom Movement and Against Selective Censorship in the Protection of Digital Rights.” It condemned authoritarian digital repression (including Iran’s internet shutdowns amid protests) while warning against selective activism and internal narrowing of debate in digital rights circles. Davoodi and Tubis connect these threads: epistemic sovereignty (the ability to distinguish reality from manipulation in an age of cheap deepfakes and scalable disinformation), the dangers of outsourcing judgment to institutions or algorithms, and the need for “hacker ethics” — understanding and improving systems rather than destroying or blindly regulating them.They draw on thinkers from Hobbes (the digital Leviathan) to Kant (“Have the courage to use your own understanding”) and Hannah Arendt (the erosion of the boundary between truth and fiction). Real problems — disinformation, online harassment, hybrid threats — are acknowledged, but the proposed solutions are scrutinised for their long-term effects on open societies. The lecture also addresses energy geopolitics and “energy transition nationalism,” showing how ideological rigidity can create new dependencies and vulnerabilities — themes resonant with broader Pirate emphasis on resilient, open societies.		The timing aligns closely with PPI’s early 2026 resolution on “Solidarity with the Iranian Freedom Movement and Against Selective Censorship in the Protection of Digital Rights.” It condemned authoritarian digital repression (including Iran’s internet shutdowns amid protests) while warning against selective activism and internal narrowing of debate in digital rights circles. Davoodi and Tubis connect these threads: epistemic sovereignty (the ability to distinguish reality from manipulation in an age of cheap deepfakes and scalable disinformation), the dangers of outsourcing judgment to institutions or algorithms, and the need for “hacker ethics” — understanding and improving systems rather than destroying or blindly regulating them.They draw on thinkers from Hobbes (the digital Leviathan) to Kant (“Have the courage to use your own understanding”) and Hannah Arendt (the erosion of the boundary between truth and fiction). Real problems — disinformation, online harassment, hybrid threats — are acknowledged, but the proposed solutions are scrutinised for their long-term effects on open societies. The lecture also addresses energy geopolitics and “energy transition nationalism,” showing how ideological rigidity can create new dependencies and vulnerabilities — themes resonant with broader Pirate emphasis on resilient, open societies.

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