<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449766543498_11365"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449766543498_11200">Social Technological Change.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449766543498_11364"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449766543498_11370">Thinking Hearts.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449766543498_11483" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449766543498_11583">Pirates are Activists forced into Politics, If we make the same mistakes as all before us, that we forget to be active to become what we fight against.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449766543498_11355"><span></span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> Alexis Roussel <alexis.roussel@partipirate.ch> schrieb am 17:37 Donnerstag, 10.Dezember 2015:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">All,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">after doing a lot of this work internally and locally with Swiss<br clear="none">pirates, I can share my point of view.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Most of the points described in this rich conversation, I totally agree<br clear="none">with. But still it makes it hard to define the core set.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">A lot of us see that the "traditional" state is not fit for our world.<br clear="none">(let's break it or make it evolve is another debate). We have been<br clear="none">tagged as anarchists some times, or libertarian.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">A lot of us want to have a system (social, economic, etc) that fits our<br clear="none">world. However we have a big problem: we do not know how this world will<br clear="none">look like, we are only starting to build it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">A lot of us, sees ourselves as humanists. This is true as we are pushing<br clear="none">for education, human rights, some even the basic income. We have been<br clear="none">tagged as individualists.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am convinced that we are on the edge of a second civil rights<br clear="none">evolution. The first one took place in the 18th century, hundreds of<br clear="none">years after the invention of printing. It took another 100 years to<br clear="none">build a democratic system fit to it. Now the Internet invention is<br clear="none">bringing another change (much quicker though). And it will take some<br clear="none">time to build the system around it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So what was the core element of the first revolution. The human being.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The french declaration of rights starts with: "All Men (lets make it<br clear="none">human now) are born free and with equal rights". Before they were not.<br clear="none">Some had rights derived from a divine law, the others were subjects.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In this phrase, the key is the recognition that each human exist before<br clear="none">the structure. What is a human is not an easy matter to decide on. In<br clear="none">these times there was debates if women had a soul, if africans or indian<br clear="none">american were from the same species as europeans. Today the debates<br clear="none">continues asking if an embryo is already an human being or not.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This recognition led to a very simple principle: a human is not for<br clear="none">sale. its physical AND mental integrity are protected against violation.<br clear="none">Of course this is not also straightforward. You can sell you hair, but<br clear="none">not your liver. You can work as an employee, even giving body services<br clear="none">like sexworkers, but you cannot enslave yourself. Human rights were born.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But today, technology is bringing another piece to the human: its data.<br clear="none">Data is today just a fuzzy concept full of servers logs, facebook posts,<br clear="none">gps coordinate, that together say a lot about us. Maybe in the future,<br clear="none">this will be better organize in an Avatar. This is still unknown how it<br clear="none">will evolve.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But the new key, it that us humans have a new part of ourselves, which<br clear="none">is digital. It is deeply linked to our body and soul, and the link will<br clear="none">only grow.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But if you read the European Data Protection Directive, we are only<br clear="none">"data subjects". We are not recognized as human beings in the digital<br clear="none">realm. This is why States can violate our rights of privacy with mass<br clear="none">surveillance, scanning through the data that is not owned by us, and<br clear="none">doesn't represent anything for them. Corporations can gather data<br clear="none">without our knowledge and use it against us.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I would argue, finally, that the Pirate Parties, are the first ones to<br clear="none">fight for the recognition of the human individual in its new form,<br clear="none">including the digital-self. New rights can be derived, like non-disposal<br clear="none">of personal data. Some concepts can be explained more easily:<br clear="none">net-neutrality is the freedom of travel for our digital self.. etc..<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We are humanist. Good. But we are more than that. We want to recognize<br clear="none">that the human has a digital integrity that need to be protected like<br clear="none">our body and soul. We will build new rights accordingly, we will build<br clear="none">new structures where needed accordingly. We will build a new economy<br clear="none">accordingly.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">my 2 cents<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Alexis Roussel / Pirate / Ancien Président du Parti Pirate Suisse /<br clear="none">www.partipirate.ch / <a href="mailto:alexis.roussel@partipirate.ch" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:alexis.roussel@partipirate.ch">alexis.roussel@partipirate.ch</a><div class="yqt7596166391" id="yqtfd14006"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">____________________________________________________<br clear="none">Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>