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General Assembly in Paris – Drones, Fees and a New PPI Board | PirateTimes

Daniel Ebbert April 22, 2014 October 31, 2020

General Assembly in Paris – Drones, Fees and a New PPI Board April 22, 2014 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Conference The General Assembly of the Pirate Party International (PPI) took place on 13 April 2014 in Paris. During this event a few great ideas came up, a new board was elected and a membership fee has been implemented. There were 22 PPI members present at the GA from the beginning of the conference, some of them remotely through “drones” (appointed persons at the GA staying in contact with them and speaking/voting on their behalf). The number of PPI members participating expanded to 24 when Portugal joined a bit …

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Swedish Pirate Party Increases in Opinion Polls | PirateTimes

Anton Nordenfur April 19, 2014 April 23, 2021

Swedish Pirate Party Increases in Opinion Polls April 19, 2014 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Pirate Party News The Swedish Pirate Party is rising in the latest opinion poll for the election to the European Parliament in May, now at 3%, compared to 1.3% in February. According to a new poll conducted by SKOP, 3% of Swedes would vote for the Pirate Party if the European elections were held today. While this is a rise from the February figures of 1.3% and 1.5% respectively, it is still too low to elect a single mandate. In the 2009 elections, the Pirate Party received a surprisingly high 7.1 %, which gave …

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Pirate Party of Italy joins Tsipras’ The Other Europe | PirateTimes

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The Pirate Party of Italy joins Tsipras’ The Other Europe April 18, 2014 · by Airon90 · in Election On 9 April, the Pirate Party of Italy closed the internal debate on the European Elections and largely voted in favour of the motion about the support to the Alexis Tsipras’ list The Other Europe through the resolution 5687 on the e-democracy platform LiquidFeedback. The impossibility of the Party to gather the minimum legal number of signatures, in order to run as an independent party, drove the members to support a candidate on Tsipras’ list. The alternative to the resolution 5687 was to ignore European elections and to think about the …

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Pedro Gutierrez April 14, 2014 October 19, 2020

Battles for Democracy. Week 15 April 14, 2014 · by Pedro Gutierrez · in Pirate Topic A weekly summary of the battles for democracy: The heartbleed bug; US spied human rights organisations; Nations buying as hackers sell flaws in computer code; Alaveteli: Open Source Freedom of Information Platform; Angela Merkel denied access to her NSA file…… About Pedro Gutierrez The certainty that a World War on Democracy was going on and we, the people, were unaware of it was keeping me up at night. The fact, crystal clear now after Snowden’s revelations, that the new battlefield is your mobile, your laptop, your data and so, that every citizen (i.e. you) …

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European Pirates Have a Board With Amelia at Head | PirateTimes

Stathis Leivaditis April 12, 2014 October 31, 2020

European Pirates Have a Board With Amelia at Head April 12, 2014 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Conference On 20-21 March 2014 nearly 400 Pirates gathered in the European Parliament in Brussels. Their goal was to create ‘The European Pirate Party” (PPEU) and bond together closer. People came from all over Europe and 34 speakers were booked for the following Internet Governance and Beyond conference which took place just after the founding of PPEU. Swedish Pirate MEP Amelia Andersdotter was unanimously elected, by the delegates of Pirate Parties, as the head of PPEU. Technology is changing politics in a dramatic way and traditional politicians are unable to understand this acceleration. …

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General Assembly In Paris | PirateTimes

Daniel Ebbert April 10, 2014 October 31, 2020

Pirate Parties International – General Assembly in Paris April 10, 2014 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Pirate Party News The next General Assembly of the International Pirate Party will take place in Paris on the 12-13 April 2014. Also taking place at the same time, is an Open Space conference under the topic: Emerging Issues for the Global Society. Acoording to the PPI statues a General Assembly is the organisation’s highest organ and can therefore make desicions concerning new members and the board as well as about changes in the statues. So far there are only two parties applying for PPI membership, Norway and Costa Rica. The registration has …

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I Miss My Political Happiness- The Cause of Political Apathy | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine April 6, 2014 October 19, 2020

I Miss My Political Happiness / The Cause of Political Apathy April 6, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Topic This post was originally written in Swedish by Johanna Jönsson [Swedish] who shares her personal reflection on political happiness. Johanna is not a Pirate but her ideas can be generically applied to many political parties. ——— I don’t really know what happened. Earlier when someone asked me why I spent so much time in politics and the party I answered, without a doubt, that it was the most enjoyable thing there was. That I had found my home. That my personal characteristics were appreciated. That I finally found …

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It seems we have a neutral net! #success | PirateTimes

Daniel Ebbert April 5, 2014 October 31, 2020

It Seems We Have a Neutral Net! #success April 5, 2014 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Pirate Topics The European Parliament accepted the Digital Agenda that was originally promoted by Vice President Neelie Kroes. This Digital Agenda includes net neutrality within the European Union and puts an end to roaming charges for mobile services in other European countries by the end of 2015. In the original proposal, net neutrality was not as clearly defined as it currently is. The original proposal had a section about “specialised services” which could get prioritised access i.e. the opposite of net neutrality. This section was one of the main points for critique as …

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Young European Election Ambassadors conference in Brussels | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine April 4, 2014 October 31, 2020

Young European Election Ambassadors conference in Brussels April 20, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The conference, called Young European Election Ambassadors (YEEA), was arranged by Young Pirates Europe to be a meeting point for young pirates (and some older ones). It was arranged in parallel with the PPEU conference and continued after it. YEEA was a mixture of presentations, workshops and social talking. BYRRH is a huge warehouse in Brussels which served as home for the days the conference took place. The Pirates only used a small part of the giant warehouse for their conference. The rest was used in many different and creative ways for several …

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The Turkish Government Goes Pirate: Further Censorship And Surveillance Mechanisms Coming | PirateTimes

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The Turkish Government Goes Pirate: Further Censorship and Surveillance Mechanisms Coming July 3, 2014 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion Due to legal obstacles to prohibiting social-media sharing by political dissidents in Turkey, the government has a new strategy: to act as Internet pirates. Much different than the political pirate movement, Turkey will now try to hack into ISPs’ systems and surveil users’ browsing/sharing habits. With this aim, recently the Internet watchdog sent a “secret orders” memo to ISPs, to prepare the software infrastructure necessary for detecting users that share unwanted content on social-media platforms. The daily Taraf’s article by Tunca Öğreten reveals the government’s plans to intervene …