Christian Engström: Political Activism [Pirate Visions] January 22, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion, Pirate Topics, Pirate Visions The first Pirate to be elected as a representative anywhere in the world is the guest author of this post which talks about political activism. Christian Engström was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 and made a big impact… About A […]
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 […]
How the State Produces Hate: Peter Sunde in Prison Part 2 October 19, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Guest Opinion (Continued from part 1) Time passes and our father becomes ill. Peter is worried about what is happening. Our father is old and has severe pains in the leg. After the lung cancer twenty years ago he only has one lung left. […]
How the State Produces Hate: Peter Sunde in Prison (Part 1/2) October 18, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Guest Opinion, Pirate Topic The prison sentence from The Pirate Bay trial is not the only punishment that Peter Sunde has to endure. His brother wrote a long public post on Facebook about the treatment of Peter Sunde and how it also affects and […]
Spreading the Message Through Culture: Introducing Neals October 15, 2014 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion, Pirate Topic Bryce Case Jr, known in the world of geek/nerd hip-hop as YTCracker, is releasing a full-length album (“Introducing Neals“) on 5 November 2014. It’s a concept album covering topics such as net neutrality, privacy, hacking and surveillance, all dear to a Pirate’s heart. The musical […]
Israeli Activists Protest Against Biometric Database Law using Drones October 1, 2014 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion “I wasn’t made by finger”, Israeli slang means “I wasn’t born yesterday” CC BY-SA nobio.org A year ago members of Pirate Party Germany landed a drone in front of Angela Merkel’s campaign rally in Dresden, in order to protest the use of surveillance drones […]
Net Neutrality and America’s Censorship Through the Backdoor September 12, 2014 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion In one of those rare moments in history, grassroots activists and Silicon Valley are on the same side of an issue: net neutrality must be saved at all costs. For Silicon Valley businesses such as Netflix, there is clearly an economic incentive for preserving net neutrality. […]
Is Sweden Helping Turkey to Suppress Digital Freedoms? June 19, 2014 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion Is the Gothenborg-based NetClean software as innocent as it is presented or is it used for silencing political dissent? Are Turkey’s notorious attempts to limit freedom of expression on the Internet adopting yet another powerful tool? This is the question that comes to mind when reading […]
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’ […]
Hard Times for Istanbul’s big man December 25, 2013 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion ‘You arrive on Friday afternoon? Good luck.’ Damn right: Friday afternoon, Istanbul traffic-jams make Rome look like Switzerland. It takes me two bloody hours on a stinky bus to get from the airport to the city center. As the bus approaches Taksim Square, I get a good look […]
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