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Internet Censorship Boosts UK Pirate Party Membership

pp ukAs more UK ISPs implement the court ordered Pirate Bay blockade, the proxy site operated by the local Pirate Party gains more traffic.

It is now among the 1000 most visited sites in the UK.

“Pirateparty.org.uk has continued to climb up the [Alexa] rankings of popular sites; we are now at no 737 in the UK, up from 1101 2 weeks ago, and from over 100,000 just a few months ago,” the party announces.

The proxy also boosted interest in the political message of the Pirate Party

“We are seeing a significant uptick in membership and people navigating the rest of the site,” the UK Pirate Party states. “The volume of emails and phone calls into the party has also increased markedly,”

As other Pirate Parties, the UK Pirates fight for an Internet free of censorship and copyright abuse.

“We believe that a free and open Internet is the cornerstone of modern democracy, culture, education and innovation, and we will continue to fight arbitrary censorship and bad lawmaking wherever we see it.”

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  • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

    Inspiring.

  • Anonymous

    Do we have any polls on how many votes they would get?

    • Guest

      Not enough

      • Guest

        i should add..yet :)

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      • Anonymous

        dont write off the pirate party yet.  First ask yourself how many votes is enough.  I am no expert on politics but I do know that getting 3% will send shock waves thru the establishment.  You dont have to win a seat to get the comfortable ones who are sitting, to stand up in horror and be very very afraid for their positions.

      • Moar Votes Useful

        I apologise if I am wrong…but
        Your defeatist attitude maybe a problem.
        ( could be a touch of reality , context suggests otherwise )

        How it works. LOOK at 2010……

        919,546 votes =   NO seats     (ukip)

        42,762 votes =   1 seat     (Alliance Party)

        10,726,614 =   307 seats    (Conservative)
        do the sums

        34,940 =  1 seat    (Conservative)

        Get nearly 1 million votes , +3% of the population = no seats.
        Get less than 0.1% of the votes = a seat.

        We gotta be smart. It is POLITICS. A contest to win the hearts and minds of a nation, IN THE RIGHT PLACES.

  • Andrew Lee

     If shit keeps going in the same direction I can easily see many countries with pirate party leaders. The harder the copyright trolls push the people the more they turn away when they realize their government is on the side of the trolls.

    Over the next few decades we’ll see a bunch of officials with a dumbfounded look on their face scratching their heads trying to figure out why the people turned away from them.

    I’ll be there to point and laugh :P hell I might even bring my boombox so I can play Guile’s theme song while they take their walk of shame.

    • Feiaogjio

       Well, it does go with anything.

  • Guest

    Society needs the Pirate Party and big cases of censorship help people realize that.
    They should take advantage of the opportunity at hand and take the party to the people more aggressively now and try to keep all the ground they can get.

  • Decimus

    It’s a new kind of push to strip people of certain freedoms, but a very common reaction.  History teaches us that when a threat comes along, we must bind together to fight it.  It’s rather strange that the opposition to this particular threat is called, “The Pirate Party”.  If it works, I guess it doesn’t matter what they’re called.

    • Anonymous

      Ive thought that too, but -

      Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

      yeah, IMO the rights holders havent quite realised the gravity of the situation and they are too stubborn to back down now.  I believe this whole thing is bigger than just a business protecting its income…this is about censorship and the freedom of human beings.  Take a look at that story about the subtitle site – here’s the analogy.  The moment culture germinates and begins to grow, it gets stomped on and killed.  The moment the light of freedom flickers and begins to take hold, it gets extinguished.  Copyright is in error.  I like to think the judges will begin to see it.  The politicians wont understand for a while, for one reason – they dont live online.  All they see is the votes and the money to help them be re-elected

  • BlurrTheTechnicolor

    stuff like that always cracks me up just for the plain reason its always
     
    the same e.g Prohibition Censorship whatever you wanna call it

    makes people do it even more just because the Big Brother tells you not to do it

    oh and thx for the block of The Pirate Bay nothing better than some

    Public Promotion for free  HAHAHAHA

  • Anonymous

     try aliveproxies.com for fast proxy servers

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