Month: <span>October 2015</span>
Month: October 2015

Month: October 2015

Creator Election Josef Ohlsson Collentine News Pirate Parties

Switzerland | PirateTimes

Election Results for Pirate Party of Switzerland: 0.94% of total ballots October 25, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Election Last Sunday, 18 October, national elections were held in Switzerland. The pirates did well, receiving 82,635 votes in total—0.94% of ballots cast. The turnout for the election was 49.99%. Before the election took place the Pirate Party of Switzerland attempted… Swiss Pirate Party Elects Co-Presidents, Passes Resolutions Regarding Upcoming Votes March 28, 2015 · by Morgan Pevonka-Thompson · in Pirate Party News On Saturday, 21st of March, 2015, Pirate Party Switzerland elected two co-presidents for the first time! The General Assembly elected Guillaume Saouli and Stephan Thöni to …

Creator Josef Ohlsson Collentine News Pirate Topic

Re-decentralizing and reclaiming the internet #netcom15 | PirateTimes

Re-decentralizing and reclaiming the internet #netcom15 October 19, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Topic On 1 October 2015, the European Green Group, The Commons Network and the Heinrich Böll Foundation arranged a conference about re-decentralizing and reclaiming the internet for all. The conference was called ‘Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age’. The first panel debate was about ‘the big picture’. It featured Renata Avila, Aral Balkan, Jennifer Baker and Nicole Dewandre in the panel. They were discussing whether or not the current model of internet governance was contrary to the “common good”. Aral talked about how, today, data is people. He drew …

Creator Election Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

Election Results for Pirate Party of Switzerland: 0.94% of total ballots | PirateTimes

Election Results for Pirate Party of Switzerland: 0.94% of total ballots October 25, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Elections Last Sunday, 18 October, national elections were held in Switzerland. The pirates did well, receiving 82,635 votes in total—0.94% of ballots cast. The turnout for the election was 49.99%. Before the election took place the Pirate Party of Switzerland attempted to get them declared invalid and re-scheduled. The government in the region of Aargauer had published an election guide for the parliamentary elections but chosen to only include the elected parties in it rather than everyone participating. The Pirate Party of Switzerland demanded that during election all parties …

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Flattr and Bitcoin Appreciation During August and September 2015 (28.33E) | PirateTimes

Flattr and Bitcoin Appreciation During August and September 2015 (28.33E) October 16, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Our support through Flattr is steady altough with only a few supporters. Most of the support comes from people subscribing to donate to our profile on Flattr every month. Thanks a lot to the ones that keep us going money-wise, it makes a huge difference. This month 20E were paid for hosting fees to cover the next few months. In total we received 17.31 Euro over the past two months on Flattr. On bitcoin we received one donation in August for 0.05 bitcoins (11.02 Euro), THANKS. Flattr is a …

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Edward Snowden | | PirateTimes

PPI Agrees to Support the Snowden Treaty October 12, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News At the Pirate Parties International board meeting, board member Henrique Peer announced he had been approached by David Miranda, who asked the organisation to participate in the Snowden Treaty project. Miranda is the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, a long-time critic… Surveillance Hangs Heavy Over Vienna August 18, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Topic This article is a guest post from Rodney Yancey, who translated an article originally from Telepolis. Privacy groups in Austria are gearing up. Austria is a small country in the EU, but privacy concerns are …

Creator Josef Ohlsson Collentine News Pirate Parties

PPI Agrees to Support the Snowden Treaty | PirateTimes

PPI Agrees to Support the Snowden Treaty October 12, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News This post is also available in: Spanish At the Pirate Parties International board meeting, board member Henrique Peer announced he had been approached by David Miranda, who asked the organisation to participate in the Snowden Treaty project. Miranda is the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, a long-time critic of NSA warrantless spying operations and the global war on terror, spanning two US presidential administrations. Greenwald broke the story of ongoing US and UK mass surveillance programs in 2013 as a columnist for The Guardian with the assistance of Miranda and the …

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Internet Ungovernance Forum Italy #IUFitalia2015 | PirateTimes

Internet Ungovernance Forum Italy #IUFitalia2015 November 4, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Conference On 12 October 2015 Felice Zingarelli (a.k.a. Felynx), member of the Italian Pirate Party, was invited to the IGF Italy, as a representative for civil society. The conference was supposed to be “multi-stakeholder” and open to debate and discussion, but this is not the impression that we had. “Most of the speakers were people used to this kind of events” Felynx explained “They are not sincerely interested in what arises from the discussion: all they want is the possibility to say “I was there”. The representative of Digital Confindustria (Italian Entrepreneur Federation) has proposed an Internet …

Creator Lorena Müller News Pirate Topic

TPP: setback for intellectual property policies | PirateTimes

Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Setback for Intellectual Property Policies October 11, 2015 · by Lorena Müller · in Pirate Topic The TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) has been finalized. Now that the negotiators have agreed on the text all that is left is approval by the twelve involved nations: Canada, USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei and Japan. However, none of these countries will let their people decide about it in a referendum. Most of what we know about TPP has come through leaks to the press, since the negotiations have been clouded in secrecy. Last week the latest leak came from Wikileaks which was about the Intellectual …

Conference Creator Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

Freedom of Speech: When Books are Burned… [Bokmässan] | PirateTimes

Freedom of Speech: When Books are Burned… [Bokmässan] October 10, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Conference This post is also available in: Spanish ‘Bokmässan’ (The book fair) is the largest cultural event in Sweden. With more than 3000 programme events there is plenty to cover. Pirate Times covered part of the conference together with another 1300 journalists present at the conference. ‘The book fair’ is primarily aimed at authors from around the world. It’s a meeting place for many discussions around current events, trends and visions for the future. Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the ‘Swedish Freedom of the Press Act’. Thus, one of the …

Creator Iceland Josef Ohlsson Collentine News Pirate Parties

PPIS is Largest Party on Iceland for 6th Month | PirateTimes

PPIS is Largest Party on Iceland for 6th Month October 7, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News If there were elections in Iceland today 34.6% of the population would vote for the Pirate Party. This is the result from the  latest Gallup poll, a slight decrease in support for the Pirate Party of Iceland. However, it is still the second highest poll result they have achieved with the highest being last month at 35.9%. The pirate party is currently slightly larger than the two current government parties together. The Independence Party (24.4%) and the Progressive Party (10.1%) have a total support of 34.5% (0.1% less than the Pirate Party). …

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