Chris Evans (Chris Ellison)

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Chris Evans (also known as Chris Ellison, his 'party' name in the Revolutionary Communist Party) is an academic at Brunel University lecturing in multimedia and is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. In particular, he wrote for Living Marxism and Spiked, was a co-founder (in 1998) of the Campaign for Internet Freedom/Internet Freedom,, spoke at The Great Debate on Technophobia and Technophilia in November 2002.

In a pattern followed by many in the LM network Evans had links with conservative think tanks. For example, he published in the journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs in 1999. His Brunel University web page mentions the IEA publication, and also a further publication on the internet from 2002. It neglects to mention that this was published by the Institute of Ideas. His Brunel page also does not mention any of his RCP/Living Marxism publications (listed below).

Publications

• Chris Evans 'Copyright in the digital age', Spiked, 19-Sep-2002.
• Chris Evans Tightening the net, Spiked, 11 June 2002
• Chris Evans, 'Copyright and the Net', in Debating Matters, The Internet: Brave New World?, Institute of Ideas, Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. 19- 38.
• Chris Evans 'Copyright and wrongs', Spiked-online, 18 February 2002
• Chris Evans, 'Vetting the net', LM 128, p. 42, March 2000.
• Evans, C., Oppression net, Journal of Economic Affairs 1999 20 (1) : 21- 28.
• 04-09-98: 'Netscape's Support for PICS' - On the day a leading British teachers' trade union warned that children are just 'two clicks' away from pornography on the Internet and demanded protection for children and their own members, Chris Ellison, from Internet Freedom, claims that Netscape's latest plans for a revision to its Web browser will have a major impact on free speech.
• Chris Ellison, 'The Net: 'I'm against censorship, but...', Living Marxism, No. 96 - December/January 1996/1997, p. 28.
• 08-23-96: 'Internet Censorship' - Chris Ellison examines what's behind the demands for regulation and why he won't be having any of it.