Month: <span>September 2012</span>
Month: September 2012

Month: September 2012

Anton Nordenfur Creator Election News

Pirate Lost Mayoral Election in Saarlouis, Germany | PirateTimes

Pirate Lost Mayoral Election in Saarlouis, Germany September 30, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Election In Sunday’s mayoral election in Saarlouis, Germany, the Pirate candidate ended up with 3.2 % of the votes, losing to the incumbent mayor. Pirate candidate Thomas Brockmann.CC Thomas Brockmann. The Pirate candidate was Thomas Brockmann, 50, a freelance journalist who was seeking to bring more transparency and citizen participation to Saarlouis. Brockmann also suggested city projects for the citizens, such as a public swimming pool. Due to low funds, Brockmann’s campaign was much smaller than those of his opponents, costing about €1,000 in total. In comparison, Christian democrat candidate Marion Jost’s campaign cost €15,000, …

2012 News Pirate Times

2012 September | PirateTimes – Part 2

Interview with Dirk Poot, first candidate of the Dutch Pirate Party September 21, 2012 · by Patrick Schiffer · in Interview Dirk Poot was the first candidate of the Dutch Pirate Party for the past parliamentary elections on 12 September 2012. He is the press spokesperson and a member of the Board of PPNL.  Even though the Pirates did not make… Neither left nor right – an essay on Pirate politics September 20, 2012 · by Zbigniew Łukasiak · in Pirate Topic “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is one of the most well known Marxist slogans and it is also how Free and Open …

2012 News Pirate Times

2012 September | PirateTimes

Pirate Lost Mayoral Election in Saarlouis, Germany September 30, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Election The Pirate candidate was Thomas Brockmann, 50, a freelance journalist who was seeking to bring more transparency and citizen participation to Saarlouis. Brockmann also suggested city projects for the citizens, such as a public swimming pool. Send a Friend to NDAA Jail September 29, 2012 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Topic Icelandic Pirate Birgitta Jónsdóttir is working against the 2012 NDAA (National Defence Authorisation Act) that allows the US military to detain citizens from any country, including US citizens, without limit and without trial. She recently tweeted about an app from …

Andrew Reitemeyer Creator News Pirate Topic

Send a Friend to NDAA Jail | PirateTimes

Send a Friend to NDAA Jail September 29, 2012 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Topic CC BY-NC-SA by watchingfrogsboil Icelandic Pirate Birgitta Jónsdóttir is working against the 2012 NDAA (National Defence Authorisation Act) that allows the US military to detain citizens from any country, including US citizens, without limit and without trial. She recently tweeted about an app from DemandProgress that aims to spread awareness and opposition to the act. The app takes a picture of a Facebook friend and superimposes prison bars over it. This is then posted to the friend’s wall for them and all their friends to see and a link learn about NDAA and …

Andrew McCallum Creator Learning News Tips & Tricks

Running an Information Stand | PirateTimes

Running an Information Stand September 28, 2012 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Learning (tips&tricks) This is the first in a series of Pirate Times articles aimed at helping Pirates get the message to people in their community – even when they are short of funds. An information stand can be a very effective way to let people know that the Pirate Party exists and is active in their area. It can also be a way to recruit new members to the party, get signatures for a petition or promote a candidate for an election. You don’t need much to run a successful stand, just some time, some enthusiasm and …

Anton Nordenfur Creator News Pirate Topic

Portugal Declares File-Sharing for Personal Use Legal | PirateTimes

Portugal Declares File-Sharing for Personal Use Legal September 28, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Pirate Topic After the anti-piracy group ACAPOR reported IP addresses of 2,000 suspected file sharers, the Portuguese Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) has come to a somewhat surprising conclusion: not only will these file sharers not be prosecuted, but it seems that file sharing for personal use is not illegal in Portugal. The DIAP prosecutor argues that copyright should not restrict the “right to education, culture, and freedom in cyberspace”. While the report doesn’t specifically cover uploading original content, it is legal to both download and to share the content, for example via torrent seeding. Quoted …

Anton Nordenfur Creator General Assembly News

PP Sweden Prepares for Important Member Meeting | PirateTimes

PP Sweden Prepares for Important Member Meeting September 27, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in General Assembly Piratpartiet, The Swedish Pirate Party, is preparing for its yearly autumn member meeting. This time, the focus is on broadening the political agenda as well as electing six new board members. The meeting is set to start on October 1 and is held on the party website where members can discuss and vote on the various topics. The autumn meeting is one of two annual, the other being the spring meeting, last held through April-May. Piratpartiet decided to broaden its politics after the general elections of 2010, and has now worked for almost …

Creator News Pirate Topic Stathis Leivaditis

From “Paisios” to “Pastitsios” there’s a blasphemy | PirateTimes

From “Paisios” to “Pastitsios” there’s a blasphemy September 26, 2012 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Pirate Topic A 27 year old was arrested by Greek police on charges of blasphemy, because on his Facebook page he satirized a monk, well known as Elder Paisios, paraphrasing his name to Elder Pastitsios, referring to the famous Greek food “pastitsio”, macaroni pie with minced meat. Are there limits to freedom of expression? Is there censorship in satire? The answer depends on from which angle one sees things, but no one can close his eyes when constitutional rights are being blatantly violated. And in the case of the 27-year-old from Psahna Evia, his …

Creator Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

Pirate Parties on Facebook and Twitter – September 2012 | PirateTimes

The Pirate Movement on Facebook and Twitter – September 2012 September 25, 2012 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The pirate movement has grown with 7 138 followers on Facebook and 5 315 followers on Twitter. The aggregated amount of new followers is 12 453 during the last month. To see the statistics from last month you can look here, these figures are from September 18th (1 month and 3 days after the last report). Last month there was an error in the calculation of Facebook fans for Latvia (3587) the correct amount should be 450 fans. This is why you can see a significant drop for …

Creator Europe News Paul Wardenga Pirate Topic

Inside the Clean-IT conflict | PirateTimes

Inside the Clean-IT conflict September 25, 2012 · by Paul Wardenga · in Europe, Pirate Party News, Pirate Topic CleanIT is a project by several European governments and private stakeholders. The project officially aims to reduce the use (or abuse) of the internet by terrorists. The list of the CleanIT goals reads, on the surface, like it is motivated by the wish to protect children or otherwise easily influenced persons from exposure to terrorist content. This protection is motivated through a fear that these people might become radicalised or otherwise harmed by seeing it. After a recent leak made public by European Digital Rights (EDRi), a Non-Governmental-Organization (NGO), CleanIT has …

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