Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

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    320 days ago

    If progressive policies were ever put into place by an elected body, it was always merely a by-product of already established social consensus formed by bottom-up politics.

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      620 days ago

      I fully agree. But people get better things. Not voting means they don’t. Not voting means the people who want worse things get what they want

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        220 days ago

        With electoralism, people get complacent with watered down reforms and become politically alienated.