Pirate News: Openness and Surveillance (April 5, 2021)
Joe, Malt, Steve and James talk about what’s going on with the Pirate Party and give the Pirate perspective on this week’s news.…
Category: Civil Liberties
Pirate News: More attacks on Section 230 (February 8, 2021)
Steve and James talk about the CDA Section 230 gutting SAFE TECH Act. You can read a redline version. Some of the articles…
Pirate News: After the Inauguration (January 23, 2021)
Sunday we will live stream the next Pirate News at 7:30pm Eastern: Biden is now president. Where will we go from here on…
End white supremacy! End surveillance! (January 19, 2021)
The events that unfolded at the capitol building on January 6th will be remembered in history as the day the threat of white…
Monday, 11am, Protest Assange Extradition (January 3, 2021)
Trump’s attack on whistleblowers reaches a new milestone Monday as a British judge will rule on whether the United Kingdom will extradite Julian…
Legislature Fumbles Police Reform Bill (December 23, 2020)
Governor Baker opposed the limited restrictions on facial recognition software in the legislature’s police reform bill (S.2963). The legislature buckled and passed a…
Today is Intl. Day Against DRM! (December 4, 2020)
The International Day Against DRM is today. Our latest Pirate News talks about Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and why it harms people and the…
Tell Gov. Baker: PASS THE POLICE REFORM BILL! (December 3, 2020)
After months of deadlock, the Massachusetts House and Senate have finally passed the long-awaited police reform bill. Though it fails to abolish qualified…
Getting Better with Application Privacy (November 25, 2020)
Apparently a social media site got hacked recently, or perhaps an employee put some of their unencrypted date on a public server. I…
Pirate News: Eviction/Foreclosure Moratorium Ends 10/17 (October 13, 2020)
Malt, James, Steve and Joe give the latest updates on the Massachusetts Pirate Party and discuss news of interest to pirates. Police using…