Pirate politics.(NET EFFECT: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WORLD)(Brief article)

Foreign Policy, January, 2008 by Keating, Joshua

In Europe, single-issue, fringe political parties are nothing new. In France, there's a party dedicated solely to restoring the country's long-defunct monarchy. In Germany, the Gray Panthers Party campaigns for pensioners. But there's something different about Sweden's Piratpartiet (Pirate Party).

While American politicians such as Howard Dean and Ron Paul have demonstrated the potential of the Internet in advancing their issues, for Sweden's Pirate Party, the Internet is the issue. It's the first political party in the world for which Internet policies constitute its entire party ...