Cypherpunk Politics

rysiek rysiek at hackerspace.pl
Tue Jan 20 12:36:50 PST 2015


Dnia wtorek, 20 stycznia 2015 14:49:06 grarpamp pisze:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:33 AM, rysiek <rysiek at 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.

That's one of the reasons ACTA got killed in the EU. Amelia Andersdotter, 
among a few others, was doing an amazing job in the EuroParliament around this 
topic.

Do not underestimate the power of a few well-motivated free radicals.

> 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.

Go for it.

-- 
Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

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