Spain Adopts Repressive ‘Gag Law’ December 13, 2014 · by Lisa · in Pirate Party News On Thursday, 11 December 2014, the Spanish congress approved a devastating new law that limits many civil rights in the country. The “law on protection of public safety” (Ley Orgánica de protección de la seguridad ciudadana) has been dubbed the ‘Gag Law’ (#LeyMordaza), as it focuses mostly on limiting the […]
Dotcom to Sell-Out Digital Rights in US December 4, 2014 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion The announcement of launching a US arm to ‘the Internet Party’ (by Mega founder Kim Dotcom) seems, on its face, quite good news. A rich, media-savvy person who understands technology getting into the US political scene to stir things up… New Zealand’s Election Results September 21, 2014 […]
PPSE GA: New board, Changes and Plans for 2015 November 30, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in General Assembly The General Assembly of the Pirate Party of Sweden recently ended with some changes. The meeting decided to make the future GA’s a bit more flexible, in lead up time, from the previous mandatory six weeks to the Presidium deciding the period. The Presidium will […]
Why Pirates should be concerned about TTIP November 28, 2014 · by Aram Gurekian · in Pirate Topic The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) bothers us on the methodological plane and on the content plane. On 11 October 2014, a large number of organizations cooperated with European Pirates in actions across many countries against the TTIP TTIP Methodology We recognize that while more information has […]
Dutch Pirate Party attacked in hacking incident November 25, 2014 · by Guest Author · in General Assembly During the General Assembly of the Dutch ‘Piratenpartij’ (PPNL), hackers penetrated the security of the party’s infrastructure. Some of the databases that were affected were the member administration system and the webmail. It is still not clear whether the intruders copied any data, changed files or compromised the party’s infrastructure […]
Winning Discussions: argumentum ad ignorantiam (Effective Pirating) November 21, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Learning (tips&tricks) 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 committing a fallacy will force him to […]
Czech Pirates Celebrate their First Pirate Mayor November 17, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election If we look at Pirate history we see that the Czech pirates already have a Senator but now history is being made again. The first Pirate mayor in the history of the Czech Republic has been elected in the spa town of Mariánské Lázně (also known as Marienbad). Vojtěch Franta, a […]
Pirates Elected to Office [Pirate History] November 15, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election, Pirate History When asked why he started a political party Rick Falkvinge answered “Because activism is not enough”. Since the formation of the first Pirate Party in Sweden in 2006 millions of votes have been cast and hundreds of Pirates have been elected. They are now representing their voters in […]
US Pirates are Running for Political Office November 3, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election Although the barriers, put up by the ruling elite, make running in national elections next to impossible for Pirates in the US, the situation in some states is different. Pirates in Massachusetts and Wisconsin are putting up candidates in Tuesday’s elections for the respective state governments. In Wisconsin […]
Winning Discussions: Ad Hominem (Effective Pirating) October 23, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Learning (tips&tricks) 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 committing a fallacy will force him to retract […]
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