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PP Sweden Prepares for Important Member Meeting | PirateTimes

Anton Nordenfur September 27, 2012 April 23, 2021

PP Sweden Prepares for Important Member Meeting September 27, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in General Assembly Piratpartiet, The Swedish Pirate Party, is preparing for its yearly autumn member meeting. This time, the focus is on broadening the political agenda as well as electing six new board members. The meeting is set to start on October 1 and is held on the party website where members can discuss and vote on the various topics. The autumn meeting is one of two annual, the other being the spring meeting, last held through April-May. Piratpartiet decided to broaden its politics after the general elections of 2010, and has now worked for almost …

Creator News Pirate Topic Stathis Leivaditis

From “Paisios” to “Pastitsios” there’s a blasphemy | PirateTimes

Stathis Leivaditis September 26, 2012 October 19, 2020

From “Paisios” to “Pastitsios” there’s a blasphemy September 26, 2012 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Pirate Topic A 27 year old was arrested by Greek police on charges of blasphemy, because on his Facebook page he satirized a monk, well known as Elder Paisios, paraphrasing his name to Elder Pastitsios, referring to the famous Greek food “pastitsio”, macaroni pie with minced meat. Are there limits to freedom of expression? Is there censorship in satire? The answer depends on from which angle one sees things, but no one can close his eyes when constitutional rights are being blatantly violated. And in the case of the 27-year-old from Psahna Evia, his …

Creator Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

Pirate Parties on Facebook and Twitter – September 2012 | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine September 25, 2012 October 19, 2020

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 are from September 18th (1 month and 3 days after the last report). Last month there was an error in the calculation of Facebook fans for Latvia (3587) the correct amount should be 450 fans. This is why you can see a significant drop for …

Creator Europe News Paul Wardenga Pirate Topic

Inside the Clean-IT conflict | PirateTimes

Paul Wardenga September 25, 2012 October 19, 2020

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 or otherwise easily influenced persons from exposure to terrorist content. This protection is motivated through a fear that these people might become radicalised or otherwise harmed by seeing it. After a recent leak made public by European Digital Rights (EDRi), a Non-Governmental-Organization (NGO), CleanIT has …

Creator Flattr Inside Pirate Times Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

Flattr Appreciation During August | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine September 22, 2012 October 19, 2020

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 that you care enough about our work to support it with money. Flattr is a microdonation service that allows you to give a small amount of money each month to content you would like to give support. It can be compared to a “facebook super-like” …

Creator News Pirate Topic Zbigniew Łukasiak

Neigher left nor right | PirateTimes

Zbigniew Łukasiak September 20, 2012 October 19, 2020

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 you want to do and you do it your own way and you don’t need to ask anyone to let you test your ideas, just like in the free market you can test your business ideas without asking for permission. Is FLOSS libertarian? FLOSS meets …

Creator Felicitas Steinhoff News Pirate Topic

TrapWire – Big Business Brother Is Watching You | PirateTimes

Felicitas Steinhoff September 14, 2012 October 19, 2020

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 a large number of files related to a project called „TrapWire“. The German online news portal “Spiegel Online“ reported that New York is in talks to test a new surveillance system that is capable of tracking movement patterns as well as license plates. Internal documents …

Creator Election Justus Römeth News

Dutch Election Today! First National Seat for the Pirates? | PirateTimes

Justus Römeth September 12, 2012 October 19, 2020

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 Justus Römeth (part of Pirate Times reporters) can be seen below. – (Piratenpartij) have a very realistic chance of making it into the “Tweede kamer” (national parliament), the second chamber of the Dutch parliament, today. Doing so would mean they are the first pirate …

Andrew Reitemeyer Creator News Pirate Topic Tips & Tricks

Lower Saxony Pirates in a Turbulent Sea | PirateTimes

Andrew Reitemeyer September 6, 2012 March 6, 2021

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 led to a long torturous process to accomplish what most political parties can accomplish in a few hours. See Pirate Times article. Dr. Meinhart Ramaswamy (the leading candidate for the coming elections), in a conversation with the author, identified some of the problems which stem …

Creator Felicitas Steinhoff News North-America

Do the Pirates stand a chance in the US? | PirateTimes

Felicitas Steinhoff September 5, 2012 October 19, 2020

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 distance himself from it. He failed and became one of its top US members. Felicitas Steinhoff, whose first encounter with the Pirate Party took place when she attended a meeting of the Pirate Party Massachusetts in Boston this spring, quickly became an involved member of …