Solving Democracy Through Technology: Introducing Wasa2il
Pirates have been designing policies and software that have the aim of bringing citizen participation into politics using technology and the internet as a platform. Many Pirate Parties are implementing liquid feedback systems internally such as PPDE which uses it as a sort of running straw-poll of membership opinion or PPIT which scrapped its boar in favour of letting its membership make decisions via liquid feedback. Liquid feedback is not without its critics and there are plenty of Pirate Programmers out there working on developing improved models.
Spanish MP Gave Power to the People
The roots of a democracy as it should be is giving the power to the people, and this was done recently by a Spanish Member of Parliament. Joan Baldovi, a Member of Parliament for the Greens (Compromís-Equo) was persuaded by members…
The Commissioner of Fundamental Rights Receives Signatures Against Surveillance
Several thousand signatures collected at stopwatching.eu after recent privacy scandals were handed over last Thursday. The commissioner of fundamental rights was first hesitant to receive the collected signatures but after some convincing, her assistants accepted them for her. The signatures were a “call…
Australian 2013 Election Results
Weeks after the Australian elections, the results have still not been finalized (due to the complex preference voting system) but it is clear that the Pirate Party has not been able to win a Senate seat.
13% of Swedes Could Consider Voting Pirate in EU Elections
In a new poll about attitudes towards the Swedish Pirate Party, 13 % could consider voting for the party during the EU elections next year. In the same poll, 9 out of 10 Swedes report being against mass surveillance. With…
German Pirate Party Receive 2.2 % in Elections, No Seats in Parliament
The first results of the German federal election were revealed on Sunday 22 September, 2013. The German Pirate Party received about 2.2 % of the votes, 0.2 percentage points more than in the last federal elections of 2009. This was a good result but unfortunately not enough for them…
The Plutocracy of Copyright Holders
The analogy that attacking piracy is a game of whac-a-mole appears to be quite a good one. Any effects to reduce piracy will be countered with new means of circumvention—if you hit a mole it reappears somewhere else.
PPSE Poster Campaign: For Sweden in Future Times
Looking at ideas and the execution of campaigning strategies can tell us a lot about a political party. Pirates should be good at remixing and re-using good ideas
High Hopes for the German Pirates on Sunday’s Election
Sunday September 22, 2013 sees the federal elections for the German Pirate Party. Pirate Times sat down with candidate MP Felicitas Steinhoff to discuss these last few days before the election. “Two thirds of the voters are still undecided, so it depends…
Sarah Palin Sued for Copyright Infringement of 9/11 Photo
The American politician Sarah Palin and her political action committee has been sued for copyright infringement after publishing a famous 9/11 photograph. The story is reminiscent of the recent story in which the Swedish Pirate Party reported the Minister of…
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