Markus Beckedahl blogs at netzpolitik.org and is a founder of Digitale Gesellschaft e. V. (@digiges) and the re:publica-conferences. Markus Beckedahl has been blogging on netzpolitik.org about politics and the digital society since 2002. Markus is a founding-partner at newthinking GmbH and also co-founder and host of Germany’s largest internet and society conference re:publica.