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Pirate Activist Receives a Flogging in Trafalgar Square
For the first time since 1830, a man has been flogged in Trafalgar Square. Ray Johansen from Pirate Party Norway received 50 lashes in the center of London. The beating was carried out as a solidarity action for the sentence Raif…
British Pirates in UK Elections this Thursday
On Thursday, 7 May 2015, the Pirate Party of the United Kingdom will be asking voters in six electorates to give them their vote. The antiquated voting system, that is still used in the insular nation, is known as first…
The UK’s Data Emergency
In a sudden move by the British Parliament, in response to April’s European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that the current Data Retention is unlawful and contravenes the European Convention of Human Rights, the leaders of the three main parties have this…
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[Live] European Parliament Election Results
Today we will report live about the results of the EU elections. We expect the first public count to be available around 23.00 with some adjustments afterwards. Before that we will have exit polls, preliminary talk about possibilities and turnout….
The Importance of the Common European Election Programme
European Pirates are moving on to the next level by adopting the Common European Election Programme (CEEP) and getting ready for the European elections of May. The CEEP was adopted by consensus, last November, in Athens So far, Pirate Parties…
UK’s web blocking programme begins
UK blocking has become default for every new subscriber to an ISP service and will soon be extended to all existing subscribers. The impact of these filters has already been catastrophic as shown in an investigation by “Newsnight”.
The Commissioner of Fundamental Rights Receives Signatures Against Surveillance
Several thousand signatures collected at stopwatching.eu after recent privacy scandals were handed over last Thursday. The commissioner of fundamental rights was first hesitant to receive the collected signatures but after some convincing, her assistants accepted them for her. The signatures were a “call…
UK Pirates to decide PPUK’s international direction
Pirate Party UK is currently an ordinary member of Pirate Parties International (PPI) but it will be asking its membership whether it should stay a member, become an observer or leave.
UK/EU Debate – PPUK: “We will not benefit from antagonising neighbours”
In the debate on the future of UK and EU, PPUK Leader Loz Kaye outlined a pirates’ vision of a citizens’ Europe in an interview with PirateTimes. In his opinion, Cameron’s initiative sounded threatful to some EU members. The vision of the PPUK for Europe could push the reforms into a complete other direction than Cameron would probably wish. However, PPUK has withdrawn from PPEU founding process, Kaye said in the interview.
Music industry seeks to ruin Pirate Party leaders
The Pirate Party of the United Kingdom has been threatend by the music industry for hosting a Pirate Bay proxy. Also their leaders have been threated on personal level that they would be finacially ruined. Similar the same has happend to the Pirate Bay of the Netherlands and both parties are in need of donations.
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