Digital rights with Ulf Buermeyer

What exactly are “digital fundamental rights”? How is it that the political phrase “The internet is not a legal vacuum” has been with us for over 30 years? And how do we protect our democratic values when public discourse increasingly takes place on private platforms? Markus Beckedahl explores these questions in conversation with Ulf Buermeyer in Part 3 of the “re:publicast Special”.

Ulf Buermeyer is a lawyer, publicist and co-founder and chairman of the Society for Civil Liberties (GFF). As a long-serving judge and host of the award-winning podcast “Lage der Nation”, he has been fighting for years at the intersection of jurisprudence and digital reality to preserve civil rights.

The interview focuses on the emergence of the first purely digital fundamental rights, the pitfalls of digital legislation, and the vision of a resilient digital civil society that helps shape its living spaces in a way that is oriented towards the common good and democratic.

The podcast episodes of the special ‘The Digital Civil Society’ are supported by Stiftung Mercator.