{"id":9179,"date":"2024-11-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9179"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:52:35","slug":"pirate-news-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/04\/pirate-news-2024-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: 2024 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our state rep. candidate, Joseph Onoroski, First officer Steve and James talk about Tuesday&#8217;s election, how the legislature can rewrite any ballot questions that voters approve, freeing the McFlurry machines and why recent events demonstrate that adding backdoors to our communications is always a bad idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On election day, November 5th vote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/onoroski.org\/\">Joe Onoroski, Pirate for 17th Middlesex<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yes on Ballot Questions 1-5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B-g1Ohk0_f4\">Check out our review video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Polling Hours are 7 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe will be at the Reilly School, 115 Douglas Road, Lowell on\u00a0election day. Come by to meet Joe and show your support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7RiWLrqRews?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Mastodon<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/masspirates\">Facebook<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/masspirates.bsky.social\">Blue Sky<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Links we discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthbeacon.org\/ballot-questions\/mariano-spilka-dont-rule-out-revisiting-ballot-questions-after-election\/\">Mariano, Spilka don\u2019t rule out revisiting ballot questions after election<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/02\/g-s1-31893\/mcdonalds-broken-ice-cream-machine-copyright-law\">A new copyright rule lets McDonald&#8217;s fix its own broken ice cream machines<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/dmca\">EFF&#8217;s explains the Digital Millennium Copyright Act<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2024\/10\/reports-china-hacked-verizon-and-att-may-have-accessed-us-wiretap-systems\/\">Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&amp;T, may have accessed US wiretap systems<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2%80%9305\">Greek wiretapping case 2004\u201305<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/tsa-backdoors-are-still-backdoors\/\">Backdoors are backdoors, even when they belong to the TSA<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Xyl2k\/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys\">TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: James O&#8217;Keefe, CC By-SA 4.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our state rep. candidate, Joseph Onoroski, First officer Steve and James talk about Tuesday&#8217;s election, how the legislature can rewrite any ballot questions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,23,32,8,47,10,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copyright","category-elections","category-slider","category-organizing","category-podcasts","category-privacy","category-right-to-repair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/StateHouse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2o3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9183,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions\/9183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}