<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Anouk Neeteson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jakobsheep@gmail.com" target="_blank">jakobsheep@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Introduction, I am helping the pirate party Netherlands, Belgium and France with International coordination.</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
At this moment these PP are growing so quick from a small (a few dozen pirates) number to a big (1000 and more) number that there are obvious organisational problems.</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">My point is that I can not get rid of the impression that the chaos is basicly around the fear of loosing the true Pirate principles/values due this change. So what are the true pirate values clearly defined?</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">In my search I come to <a href="http://int.piratenpartei.de/Uppsala_Declaration#Uppsala_Declaration" target="_blank">http://int.piratenpartei.de/Uppsala_Declaration#Uppsala_Declaration</a> the Uppsala declaration. <font face="arial, sans-serif">Here I find the pirate values being </font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">described </font></b><font face="arial, sans-serif">but not </font><b>defined</b><font face="arial, sans-serif">. So I give it a try to get a <b>synthesis</b>.</font></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am sure that you have seen my article at <a href="http://piratetimes.net/neither-left-nor-right-an-essay-on-pirate-politics/">http://piratetimes.net/neither-left-nor-right-an-essay-on-pirate-politics/</a> (but I still link to it for anyone to check it). My opinion is that the pirate politics is about pragmatic revisiting of various policies in the wake of new technological circumstances. And so:</div>
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So if I am not mistaking the PP objectives are:</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
1- Transparent governing and all public organisations have to become transparent as well.</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because it is good and those new technologies make this possible.</div>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif">2- </font><font face="arial, sans-serif">Direct democracy and participation of all citizens.</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></blockquote><div>As above</div>
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</font></div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">3- </span>A complete review of the copyrights and patenting system.<div><br></div></blockquote><div>Because new technologies make enforcing copyright (and to some extent patents) a totalitarian affair, and because the sheer amount of new discoveries make the patent system impossible.</div>
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4- Protection and guarantee of privacy and safety.</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Because new technologies make privacy very difficult so we need to defend it.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Zbigniew Lukasiak<br><a href="http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/">http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/">http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/</a><br>