I agree here. But for a plutocracy it has a lot of democratic tools, and still a somewhat democratic ethos (and certainly a lot of democratic pathos), so, given today's state of the internet, it seems that more harm (in reputation) than good (what are the risks with hosting in the US?) can come from moving the US pirate party's web presence to servers in Iceland. For private blogs, or (e-)businesses I do see a lot of advantage, but not for a political party.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The US is democratic in form, but in substance it is a plutocracy.<br>
When corporations have no moral authority, so neither do the laws they<br>
impose.<br>
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Dr Richard Stallman<br>
President, Free Software Foundation<br>
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Boston MA 02110<br>
USA<br>
<a href="http://www.fsf.org" target="_blank">www.fsf.org</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a><br>
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.<br>
Use free telephony <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/" target="_blank">http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/</a><br>
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