On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:33 AM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
have a look at Julia Reda in the European Parliament; Pirate Party (not a huge fan of the Pirates, but still, closest to Cypherpunks as you can get right now). Before there was Amelia Andersdotter. Sometimes all you need is to look around a bit.
Yes and I did say effectively as in a couple MPs may be of muted influence... if you put 2 pro voices, 8 moderate voices and 90 antis in a room (or any other best conceivable odds at internal psyche on fringe issues like crypto rights) you're unlikely to get much done other than arduously slow education. On the other hand if getting on the ballot with a new platform is relatively easy you can flood that with candidates and see what happens. Either way, good thing is that we actually are now nearing a point where odds of an elected having been exposed to computers as an innate user and even some of these issues[1] their whole life are getting better. Due to this maybe in another 10 years there will be an inflection and it'll just happen. Till then we need more people strategically moving in, ie... https://freestateproject.org/ Just know that the other side is moving theirs in too so you have to beat the race. Right now is a good time to do it because the only ones really steeped in these issues are the original internet users (or the young github/twitter activist generation), you wait and will get washed out by the general masses coming online behind you as future candidates, then your trusted voice "hey this MP knows CPU's, lets ask her" is dimished before you can steer any 10/20/50 year guidance into things. [1] Like having personally used bittorrent, stumbled across github, maybe followed a link to the EFF, etc... actual knowledge beyond consumer use of internet.