[pp.int.general] Pirate Parties and Democracy/Freedom of Speech

[Rodrigo Pereira]

But when we say "Free speech", we say free speech in the Internet? And on
the radio? and Television? "Free Speech could be "Free to speech". In
Brazil, about 10 oligarchies have more than 90% of the medias.  Here in
Brazil, the people haven't much space to speech on the medias, the economic
power of oligarchies control the public opinion and "the thruth". I think
when we talk about freedom of speech, we speak in neutral and participatory
networks, independent of technology.





2009/7/4 Jouni Snellman <jounisnellman at gmail.com>

> I definitely agree.
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Ilya Kravtsov <aeroclub.ep at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey guys, Aeroclub from Russia here.
>> Here at Pirate Party Russia we are working on our platform right now. And
>> following the advice of our more succesful colleagues abroad, we are trying
>> to keep the list of issues we are working on at minimum: copyright, privacy
>>  and patents, of course. However, we have a major discourse now about the
>> proposal to add another "pillar" to these three, namely the demand of
>> democracy and free speech. As you know, the situation with these is pretty
>> bad in Russia, but the real question is whether they should be included in
>> the issues of a Pirate Party.
>> The question of censorship is pretty close to that of privacy, and the
>> anti-democratic measures taken by the Russian government also affect us
>> directly (for example, to register an political party officially, we need to
>> have local cells in at least the half of Russian prefectures with a minimum
>> number of members of 500 at each of them; that makes it totally impossible
>> for us to be registered officially under these rules, since only in the
>> major urban hubs people have access to the internet, and geographically most
>> of country is villages were nobody has ever seen a computer)...But are these
>> in the scope of the pirate movement and don't they affect the "Left-right
>> neutrality" conception? What do you guys think?
>>
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