News Digest. Week 5 | PirateTimes

News Digest. Week 5. February 4, 2014 · by Pedro Gutierrez · in Pirate Topic This article is a summary of some of the main pirate news that happened during the week that we did not write about. Towards a True Democracy After three years of turmoil, Tunisia has the Arab world’s most progressive constitution. Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) has approved a new constitution […]

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Pedro Gutierrez | PirateTimes – Part 3

News Digest. Week 5. February 4, 2014 · by Pedro Gutierrez · in Pirate Topic This article is a summary of some of the main pirate news that happened during the week that we did not write about. 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 […]

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Chelsea Manning | | PirateTimes

Pirates nominate Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for Nobel peace prize February 3, 2014 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News Representatives in the EU parliament from the Pirate Party of Sweden (Amelia Andersdotter and Christian Engström) as well as parliamentarians from the Pirate Party of Iceland (Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jón Þór Ólafsson and Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson) have conjointly nominated the American… Chelsea […]

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Public Submissions to U.S. Special 301 IP report ends February 7 | PirateTimes

Public Submissions to U.S. Special 301 IP report ends February 7 February 3, 2014 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic What is Special 301? When Intellectual Property protection was pushed into trade rules, the U.S. created a unilateral policy of enforcement. Every year the U.S. Trade Representatives rate every country’s level of Intellectual Property protection, such as creating law to punish file sharing […]

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Pirates nominate Manning and Snowden for Nobel peace prize | PirateTimes

Pirates nominate Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for Nobel peace prize February 3, 2014 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News This post is also available in: French, Spanish Representatives in the EU parliament from the Pirate Party of Sweden (Amelia Andersdotter and Christian Engström) as well as parliamentarians from the Pirate Party of Iceland (Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jón Þór Ólafsson and Helgi […]

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Michael Wartenbe | | PirateTimes

Public Submissions to U.S. Special 301 IP report ends February 7 February 3, 2014 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic When Intellectual Property protection was pushed into trade rules, the U.S. created a unilateral policy of enforcement. Every year the U.S. Trade Representatives rate every country’s level of Intellectual Property protection, such as creating law to punish file sharing or making sure the […]

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La Fin de la Neutralité du Net n’est pas une Surprise | PirateTimes

La Fin de la Neutralité du Net n’est pas une Surprise janvier 31, 2014 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Amérique du Nord, Pirate Topic Cet article est également disponible en: Anglais Récemment la neutralité du net aux États-Unis pourrait avoir finalement rencontré un muravec la décision de la Cour d’appel fédérale de Washington d’abolir la capacité de la Federal Communications Commission (FCC) à faire […]

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2014 janvier | PirateTimes

La Fin de la Neutralité du Net n’est pas une Surprise janvier 31, 2014 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic Récemment la neutralité du net aux États-Unis pourrait avoir finalement rencontré un mur avec la décision de la Cour d’appel fédérale de Washington d’abolir la capacité de la Federal Communications Commission (FCC) à faire respecter les règles antidiscriminatoires et d’antiblocage… Le Parti Pirate […]

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2014 January | PirateTimes – Part 2

Pirate News Digest. Week 2 January 16, 2014 · by Pedro Gutierrez · in Pirate Party News This article is a summary of some of the main pirate news that happened during the week that we did not write about. Towards a True Democracy The Call for Innovative and Open Government. An OECD overview of Country Initiatives…. Spanish Pirates to Elect their MEP Candidates by […]

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2014 January | PirateTimes

The End of Net Neutrality and Why it is Not Surprising January 31, 2014 · by Michael Wartenbe · in Pirate Topic Lately Net Neutrality in the U.S. may have finally hit a wall as the D.C. Ciruit Court of Appeals struck down the FCC’s (Federal Communications Commission) ability to enforce anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules on ISPs. The internet rightfully expressed its… Call for Action: […]

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