[pp.int.general] PPI's Consultation process and principles

[Reinier Bakels]

I like the simplicty of your draft. "Principles"really should not be more than one A4 sheet (Americans may use "letter" size paper), perhaps preferable half of it.

Your ten commandments fall in a number of categories:
- some are obvious, because recognised human rights: 1 2 5
- some are about (internal) (co)operation: 4 7 8 9 10 
The essence of pirates is in 3.

I once wrote a draft as follows:
1. The purpose of the "Pirate" movement is to strive for a balanced public information and culture policy in the Information Age. "Information policy" includes (but is not necessarily limited to):

    1.1. So-called "intellectual property": copyright, patent law, trademark law etc.

    1.2. Privacy in the broadest sense of the word.

2. The problem is the lack of balance in the political process:

    2.1. "Intellectual property" policy presently is geared almost exclusively to the interests of the potential rights owners, instead of the general interest, for purposes such as the promotion of culture and innovation.

    2.2. Privacy is unduly sacrificed for safety and law enforcement purposes.

3. The method of the Pirate movement is to politicise these issues, and to strive for a proper political representation of interests in order to restore the balance of arguments on these issues.

    3.1. Politics require a practical approach, geared towards decision making. Coalitions and compromises are not excluded as a matter of principle, if only the policy can be improved in the direction desired by the Pirate movement.

    3.2. Presently, the general public may not be properly informed on the Pirate movement issues, if only due to persistent disinformation campaigns by opponents. So there should be a strong emphasis on educating the general public.

    3.3. Unlike some populist parties, Pirates do not question the present political system per se, but exploit it.

And finally I added home "hot air" about ethics (= rules to be observed even without external enforcement).

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>>> REINIER B. BAKELS PhD LL.M. MSc
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jorge 
  To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk 
  Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:07 PM
  Subject: [pp.int.general] PPI's Consultation process and principles


  Hello people,

  I have two questions for the pirate parties leaders and activists.

  1) Thinking about the PPs troubles that we had recently in the list, I suggest a colaborative elaboration of some PRINCIPLES to Pirate Parties. I mean the basic commitments that we have to take.  

  We don't need a complicated process to write it. I think we know more or less the basic. I start a draft http://int.piratenpartei.de/Building_the_principles_of_PPI

  2) Concerning the PPI new name "Pirate Parties International", I noticed that the most of pirates continues to refer to PPI as Pirate Party International. We did not have enough discussion about this change. The most activists of pirate activists reffer to PPI as "Pirate Party International" because sounds much better and they recognize that we are part of international movement with the same aims, no matter national or regional differences. 

  I understand that the former name suggest a great of responsabilities that the coreteam are not ready to take. But it could change after the PPI Conference.

  I suggest to open a public consultation before decision. To do this easely we can use tools like reddit.

  Finally, I noticed that there are links in the PPI'site to pirate parties that do not exist yet, like China or South Africa; or fake site, like Peru (with a offensive message against us). Who are that guys? We have to cheke better before to include a new PP in our network.

  best regards,

  Jorge
  Partido Pirata - Brasil
  www.partidopirata.org









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