So, Sweden’s Pirate Party has won one of the country’s 18 seats in the EU parliament, campaigning on the issues of free file-sharing for all on the net – and also increased user privacy.
No doubt the high-profile Pirate Bay trial has raised public awareness on the topic within Sweden and also worked to help mobilise young people to vote on an issue they cared about, where possibly they might simply have not bothered (the 18-25 demographic is hardly notorious for massive turnouts at elections).
Anyway there are basically two things that make the result an especially interesting one for me:
1. Firstly, I am impressed that an issue such as this can be discussed and debated to this extent in mainstream Swedish…
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Ok, so it’s fair to say that Twitter has featured quite prominently on this blog in recent months, just as it has pretty much everywhere where people are talking about interesting new stuff about the web. There have been times of serious excitement about Twitter’s achievements – and also the odd ‘what’s-the-point-of-all-this?’ type post. Even Techcrunch has recently cheekily apologised for the extent of its Twitter coverage, but then continued to discuss it further, again and again and again…
Well, we’re doing the same right here, right now – and we’re not even apologising for it ;) – the reason being that a recent Twitter development is rapidly becoming quite an exciting prospect, even for the Twitter-sceptics among us.
The reason for all…
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