2015 January | PirateTimes – Part 2
A report from the Argentinian Pirate Party GA
Dear Pirates and Piratesses, I would like to share with you the outcome of the General Assembly of the Pirate Party of Argentina that took place on Friday 28 December 2014 . Summary: we talked about what we have accomplished,…
Young Pirates Surveil Government Officials at Security Conference
The Swedish Pirate Party’s youth organisation Young Pirates recently visited a security conference in Sälen, Sweden – and took the opportunity to track a hundred government officials, politicians, journalists and others through an open WiFi network. The annual Society and Defence…
Exclusive: A Sneak Peek At CISPA 2015
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is the bill in the US Congress that just refuses to die. Like a zombie, it keeps rising from the dead to harass cyber activists and civil liberties advocates. In a slight…
PPI Takes Help from PPAU to Arrange Online GA
The Pirate Parties International (PPI) Board and Pirate Party Australia (PPAU) will cooperate to conduct an online General Assembly meeting on (or before) 15 March 2015, according to minutes of the most recent PPI Board meeting. On 5 January 2015 PPAU…
Goals for Pirate Times in 2015 – World Domination
At the start of each year the Pirate Times team discusses the plans and goals we have for the coming twelve months. Here are our goals for 2015: 100.000 visitors to our website 3.500 followers on both Facebook/twitter (+50% follower…
Birgitta Jónsdottir will advocate for Freedom of Internet in Prague
The Pirate member of the Althing( the Icelandic national parliament), Birgitta Jónsdottir, is going to visit Prague on 24 January 2015 to deliver a message about freedom of the press and freedom on the Internet: The event is being organized…
Winning Discussions: The Fallacy Fallacy (Effective Pirating)
Logical fallacies are techniques that people use to make an argument appear convincing even when it is wrong. Learning how to identify and refute logical fallacies is one of the best ways to win in a discussion. Catching an opponent…
A Spanish Pirate in Argentina
During a visit in Argentina a few weeks ago (the country I was born in), I took the opportunity to get to know some Pirates from Argentina. We met up in a bar in the “Abasto” zone, one of the…
PPI Board Cannot Collect Fees, says Court of Arbitration
On the afternoon of Tuesday 30 December 2014 (CET) the Pirate Parties International (PPI) Court of Arbitration (CoA) ruled that the PPI Board does not have the authority to request payment affiliation fees from its members. The decision relates to an application…
Pirate Times – 2014 in Review
This past year has been an eventful one, both for the Pirate movement and for Pirate Times. A significant moment in pirate history was when PPEU was formed. Later that year PPI had their general assembly in Paris and arranged their…
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