I agree. Democracy and free speech belong in the agenda of Pirate Parties.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Ilya Kravtsov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aeroclub.ep@gmail.com">aeroclub.ep@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Hey guys, Aeroclub from Russia here.</div>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.<div>
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.</div>
<div>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?</div>
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