Karl-Erik Tallmo on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:23:20 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> How right wing are the Pirates? |
Judging from what the Swedish Pirate Party says, I think there are at least three problems with their standpoint: 1) They acknowledge mostly privacy/integrity problems on line, and not much in the "real world". However, these questions pervade lots of political issues: the treatment of criminals as well as of crime victims, the treatment of patients, of refugees, of immigrants, and controversial issues like euthanasia or abortion ... but also more trivial matters such as how you are are being treated at work, regarding confidentiality, respect etc. If the Pirate Party representatives are prepared to cooperate with any party in the EP, or elsewhere, that shares their views on this narrow definition of privacy/integrity, they are bound to get strange bed mates both from the left and right. 2) They mostly concentrate on threats from the state. But what about threats against privacy/integrity from private actors, say Google, insurance companies etc.? Maybe this is indicative of a certain bias towards the right? 3) They can't see that the copyright issue is an integrity issue as well, regarding both the artist and their works. See also my long examination of the Swedish Pirate Party: http://slowfox.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/swedish-pirate-party-a-critical-examination/ Karl-Erik Tallmo # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org