From wikipedia: “Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use of free and open-source software, free sharing of knowledge (open content and open access), information privacy, transparency, freedom of information, free speech, anti-corruption, net neutrality and oppose mass surveillance, censorship and Big Tech.”

  • moody@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    “Free speech” is often just a disingenuous shield when bigots want to be be bigots without social consequences.

    While this is often true, it also often applies to many people who have things to say that their government don’t want them to.