by gtdonovan on September 21, 2011 at 11:49 am · Filed under affinity politics, Berlin, cybercity, elections, governance, identity, link, media politics, participation, pirate party, privacy
From the article: “By winning 8.9 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election in [Berlin], these political pirates surpassed — blew away, really — every expectation for what was supposed to be a fringe, one-issue party promoting Internet freedom. The Pirates so outstripped expectations that all 15 candidates on their list won seats … The question that members of Germany’s political establishment are now asking after the insurgent party stormed the statehouse is this: Are the Pirates merely the punch line to a joke, a focus of protest, a reflection of electoral disgust with all established political parties — or an exciting experiment in a new form of online democracy?”
by gtdonovan on June 21, 2009 at 2:58 am · Filed under EU, governance, informationalism, participation, pirate party, privacy, property, Sweden
According to Wired’s Threat Level blog:
Sweden’s Pirate Party won a seat in the European Union Parliament, swept in Sunday amid outrage over a new copyright law and the convictions of the four founders of The Pirate Bay.
The party, formed to protest copyright law, took 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden and one of that country’s 18 seats in the European Parliament. The party stands for radical reform of copyright legislation, abolition of the patent system and guaranteed online-privacy rights.
Check out wikipedia for background on the Pirate Party or visit the official Pirate Party website.
