They just had their yearly conference yesterday. New board for the next year.
Any love for the US Pirate Party?
They aren't ideologically locked into any specific socialist or communist current but they do good work. A good example of "syncretic" not becoming spineless centrist
>>2372829Libtarded reformist shit, literal NGOs affiliated with EU libs plus this
>>2372860 they actually lobbied for legalizing CSAM
OP YOU MADE THIS SHIT THREAD ALREADY, SAME FLAG SAME FUCKING SHIT TOPIC, KILL YOURSELF
>>2372829>they do good workWhat are some examples?
We should find allies in the class struggle in unconventional places but if we do that we should be looking at where there's common ground and revolutionary potential.
>>2372896>We should find allies in the class struggle in unconventional places but if we do that we should be looking at where there's common ground and revolutionary potential.They are literal liberal NGOs, there is nothing to search for there.
Pirate Parties International (PPI) is a "nonprofit" international
non-governmental organisation with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Formed in 2010 it serves as a worldwide organisation for Pirate Parties, currently representing members from 43 countries. The Pirate Parties are political incarnations of the freedom of expression movement, trying to achieve their goals by the means of the established political system rather than through activism. Since 2016 the seat of PPI is Geneva/Switzerland. In 2017, PPI was admitted to
ECOSOC as a special observing member.
ECOSOC is short for the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Despite being "non-profit" in name they are a literal NGO amassing huge amounts of revenue:
RocketReach.co states that the "Pirate Parties International annual revenue was $20.1 million in 2025
https://rocketreach.co/pirate-parties-international-profile_b5cac06af42e143fThe exact funding sources of Pirate Parties International are not explicitly detailed.
This is like looking for "allies in the class struggle" in the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation.
>>2372935You want a source?
https://euobserver.com/9/30589 they fucking paywalled it.
It was in the previous thread, this OP shilling for "muh pirate pirate" is likely paid to repeat it often so that people would just get tired of explaining or forget about how rotten these NGOs are.
>>2372959Watch out, the paid shill is gonna beg you to support it "out of concern for your online privacy and sacred rights" like
"its not just about piracy, its about digital freedums duudee, come join our Epstein gang to prevent bad laws with signatures"
>>2372967Not liberal, not paid
Shill maybe
>>2372967Also "Epstein gang". There is zero (0) support for anything close to support for or of CSAM. If some fucking loon over a decade ago brought it up in a space of a new movement, it has thoroughly been pushed out.
If you want to call the movement "liberal" (which it's not), whatever. At least be honest about what it actually is
Small third parties only stand a chance in local regions where few vote but their impact would be basically nothing.
>>2372860It shouldn't be sold but majority of people arrested and imprisoned for creation, distribution and ownership are all teenagers expressing their sexuality or it's one of the few ways they have to make money. At most it only should be allowed to be removed online not breaking doors down. I personally know a case of an entire middle school was being held and questioned by the police because some girl sent her nudes to a classmate and the retard she sent it to spread it around and nearly the entire school had her photos. You can find articles on other cases like a Black teen who was arrested for child porn production for taking a nude of himself. It also is used as an excuse for government surveillance with systems that also are used to crack down on dissent and it is commonly used to shut down political groups by planting it on them with malware. In fact everyone on here is likely in possession without realizing it. Any time you get a CP spamsbot on an imageboard that image is saved to your computer as a temporary file but once the system deletes it, it's still there only the reference to find the file is erased, you're in possession where if anyone forensically examines your computer you're going to prison, and many places intent is not needed for conviction so it doesnt matter if there was no intent. Same reason Trump tried to pass the Take It Down Act to get rid of deepfakes and said the quiet part out loud the real intent is for him to crack down on dissent.
>>2372889>CSAMNewspeak psyop. Majority is teenagers who do it privately, or publicly for attention or sell it for money and not everything with kids goes as far as abuse but exploitation so calling all CSAM is misleading propaganda that was created by some government agency to shut down any discussion by falsely framing people critiquing it as child abusers. A lot that is sold comes from Russians trying to make money for a living too by the way. If you want it to stop you have to improve conditions for people.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/07/27/the-kids-aren-t-alright>>2372829>Any love for the US Pirate Party?Why should any genuine socialist show any love for irrelevant libertarian LARPers acting like online piracy is an act of resistance? I pirate all the time, but I'm not under any illusion that it's some grand act.
>They aren't ideologically locked into any specific socialist or communist currentThey aren't even tangentially related to socialist or communist politics. It's petty bourgeois and settler-colonial pseudo-activism.
>but they do good work.Like what?! Genuinely what the actual hell has the
Pirate Party of all things materially done
ever? They don't do shit. Hell, they don't even use the resources they advocate for to help others! Literally their entire platform is that people should be able to pirate, have some vague ideal of "privacy", and anything else is just a crazy cumshot of eclectic and contradictory ideas.
They're a joke and so are you. >>2373037>A lot that is sold comes from Russians trying to make money for a living too by the way.Having modded and run various imageboards over the past 10+ years, the most CP spam has come from Russia and Ukraine, one site disabled starting threads with JPGs temporarily in 201[5?] because they were posting ad spam every hour or two (that op was Ukrainian and Russian IP addresses). The people behind the recent wave of aggressive spamming on imageboards and other sites used proxies but this honeypot confirmed their timezone and language were set to far east Siberia:
https://trashchan.xyz/meta/thread/374.html (don't bother reading much after the first few posts, the thread devolved because trashchan is trash)
Given what happened to these countries after the fall of the Soviet Union, I believe that the region is a center for CP production and distribution businesses
Normally I don't bother with CWs, but this street interview has children talking about their experiences in prostitution. Not graphic, but horrifying.
https://lefty.pictures/post/view/23271 (Yekaterinburg, RF, 1998)
While I look on in despair at the liberalization of China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc., I then remember what happens when you let capitalists take over.
>>2373343Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_AustraliaNow merged with other similar minor parties to be part of our new Fusion Party, which is generally centrist-progressive but got pushback this election because some candidates were wacky cookers, recommending voters put far-rightoid parties above Greens socdems.
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/781594877090791424/fusion-delusion-and-htv-confusion >>2372935>>2372940Swedish sources:
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/piratpartiet-dementerar-vill-inte-legalisera-barnporrhttps://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/3900433https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0E9zag/piratpartiet-dementerar-uttalande-om-barnporrTL;DR: banning possession of child porn is bad because le information wants to be free. more specifically it's about the loli case. the point that CP is used as a battering ram for repressive legislation is true however
>>2372949dude, people still push the historical negationist view that Troberg "ruined the party" or whatever, rather than Falkvinge destroying any momentum the party had with the child porn shit,
right in the middle of the election season. last time I was involved with the party no one had any fundamentally negative to say about the guy. Falkvinge's defense of loli is repeated on this very board on a regular basis
while we're on the subject of PP, and the Swedish party in particular, what always annoyed me was that they were pro free software and pro open protocols in words but not in action. the entire intranet of the Party ran (still runs?) on some proprietary Microsoft crap. far too many Party members again and again encouraged people to become useds of sites like Facebook and Twitter, rather than herding them towards libre alternatives
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