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 […]
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 […]
Flattr Appreciation During August September 22, 2012 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times In the spirit of transparency here is our income report for August. We received €6.02 through 47 flattrs by 9 unique users. This money will go to covering our costs for web space and paying our domain name. More importantly it gives motivation to us since you show […]
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 Source Software (FLOSS) is being used and produced. Is FLOSS communist? In FLOSS you choose what […]
TrapWire – Big Business Brother Is Watching You September 14, 2012 · by Felicitas Steinhoff · in Pirate Topic On 10 August 2012 operators of the notorious whisteblower site Wikileaks reported that they had been hit by a cyber attack. 10GB of data were supposedly fired at their servers in a pretty severe DDoS-attack. One reason for the attack could have been the publishing of […]
Who Votes For Pirates? September 17, 2012 · by Paul Wardenga · in Tips & Tricks German study on voting behaviour gives insights on Pirates’ target demographic Who is likely to vote Pirate? Previously, there have been mostly educated guesses about the target demographic of the Pirates, tending to name young technology affiniados. A recent representative study, carried out by Prof. Elmar Brähler and Dr. […]
Dutch Election Today! First National Seat For the Pirates? September 12, 2012 · by Justus Römeth · in Election In one hour we should know the preliminary results from the Dutch elections and how Piratenpartij (PPNL) did. For live coverage you can take a look at one of the two following people covering it Justus Römeth and Andrew Norton. Some selected excerpts from the reporting by […]
Lower Saxony Pirates in a Turbulent Sea September 6, 2012 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Topics, Tips & Tricks CC BY Pirate Times It took the Pirates of Lower Saxony in Germany three meetings and a lot of pain and anguish to select a list of candidates for their elections to the state parliament, Landtag, due in January 2013. A combination of factors […]
Do the Pirates stand a chance in the US? September 5, 2012 · by Felicitas Steinhoff · in North-America, Pirate Party News Brad Hall’s first encounter with the Pirate Party happened when he happened across a post on Boingboing.net regarding the party. Intrigued, Brad decided to ingratiate himself in the US movement, aiming to become an embedded journalist. While supporting the cause, he tried to […]
PPEU Conference Barcelona September 1, 2012 · by Justus Römeth · in Conference On this weekend there will be an international pirate conference in Barcelona. Apart from the final discussion and drafting of statutes for founding of a European Pirate Party there is also a panel planned on broader, more general topics. Pirate Times was able to ask Muriel Rovira Esteva, international coordinator from the […]
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