TEDx Talks
Rick Falkvinge
Political evangelist
In 2006, Rick Falkvinge, a Swedish software entrepreneur, founded a new political party centred around the subjects of file sharing, copyright and patents. He called it the Pirate Party and it rose to prominence after a government crackdown on the file-sharing site, the Pirate Bay. Since then, the Pirate Party has swept Europe and beyond to become an international political movement, active in 40 different countries with representation in the European parliament.
In Sweden, it’s the largest party for voters under the age of 30 with 25% of the vote, and in September 2011, the German Pirate Party won an unprecedented 8.9 per cent of the vote and now has several members in the Berlin state parliament. Focused on the subjects of government transparency, internet privacy and copyright law, the Pirate Party hosts Wikileaks on its servers and uses new technology to leverage political power in new and interesting ways. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine called Falkvinge one of the top 100 global thinkers.
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It is most certainly in the interest of every Allied scoundrel to align himself with the most glorious pirate party. Imagine a TEDx where you could have the most vilified, demonized, and despised antagonists and give them a platform to rail against the Allied Republics, even where the Allied citizens would really hear the arguments, presented to them neutrally, and be allowed to make up their own minds about them.
Great Talk.
Pirate party trumped in US Elections.
Congrats on your wins tonight
"people will take your vision and do whatever they can to further it" If you are passionate, people will be attracted to that passion and help even though they dont really know why. I am passionate about something I do in my life and I can tell all and sundry, people are attracted to that passion like moths to a lamp. So, be passionate about your cause. It may not guarantee all the help you need, but in hindsight in my stuff, I have never been alone and my group of followers is growing. PS, I would like to end illiteracy too, that's a wonderful cause we can all do soooooo easily
RoShawn. Sanderson
78,001st!
https://www.seen.is/videos
Hey Rick can you post some of your stuff on seen.is?
Nicely done sir. :3
What do you do if your country's system excludes all but two parties?
"There's a Futurama quote…"
"An Entrepreneur is tasked with making money given the constraints of society and technology. They do not get to dismantle civil liberties, even if, and perhaps especially if, they can't make money otherwise." Rick Falkvinge @ TEDx Observer
this guy must have at least dozen different std's from all the pussy he's getting
Sure the Dems and Reps are thr right and far right of the "corporate party", but their polisitions shift over time on fluctuations and creation of internal caucuses. Look at the Tea Party in The GOP for a good exsmple
someone asked how the US two party system could add something like an effective party as Parliments easily add them.. Instead of a 3rd p, build a caucus into the Dem or Rep and b effective within.g
Assume good intent. Best thing I ever learned from Wikipedia. Thing is, you only learn it by contributing.
your a god i wish things you send would be private selling drugs would be so much eaiser ! voting for the pirate party peace out from SwEdEn
'vote with money' is the most moronic thing that someone can rely on. it assumes that those corporations – but more, their big shareholders, will just sit there and take your 'voting with money' and removing their power. they dont. they conspire, they collaborate, they monopolize. 'voting with money' bullshit is something which works only in 'wild west' economic situations – the frontier times of an economy ( or a new field of economy) in which there is no dominant power. let it go.
If someone told him that, in 2012, pirate party would be germany's strongest party, would he believe it ….
i dont want to leave it negative so what needs to be done is to help empower the humans of the world to demand their governments represent the layman. Because the point is when a party is elected on certain promises and break them. Technically that is fraud. When a goverment colonises other countrys and uses the media to scaremonger and dehumanise the colonised to the governed this is the media conspiring with other and comitting war crimes and terrorism eg USA and UK in many countries
but that doesnt work either do you think the newspapers would tell you if people were boycotting there paper? No and thats the problem the system works against the masses, not for them!
The keywords here are "corporations run our government." If we don't like something, we must vote with our money. That's the only thing corporations understand or respond to.
if you were going to say 'epic' or 'legit' to anything… well, this better be it! 😛
If you liked this I recommend the documentary Us Now. It's free and you can watch it at Lucid Tree dot com
We've let corporations run our government into the ground. It gets worse every day while they distract people with this single party political system and its insane bipolar ideologies. The president and congress are just puppets. I doubt a single one of them is honest and even fewer actually belong to anything but the Corporate Party. It's impossible to get anywhere if you aren't "Rep." or "Dem." Voting is a joke too because you pick from the same guy twice. It really makes no difference.
m/..m/ salute and admiration ….
what ive noticed is usually one campaigns under the party that most fits their ideals. if your popular enough then information gets around and the like to the point you've influenced what people want from their politicians
In European democracies it is actually feasible to start a political party in order to make a change. Most governments are formed by coalitions and the party's impact on the new polices is roughly in proportion to its size (so long as they belong to the winning coalition). How does that work in the US with a two party system?
I wish he would elaborate on the “credible, inclusive, tangible". How would I do that best in practice?
He’s right. Everyone of us *can* do it. We just say we can’t so we have an excuse. And when we “try”, we either try to be Hercules, and make it too hard, or are half-assed, and get bored/disappointed. (Or we let idiots drag us down. [Look up “crab mentality" on Wikipedia])
As a game designer, I can tell you: It’s the balance, that makes it motivating! And it’s the vision of the epic reward of the ultimate goal, that gives you direction and purpose.
Create those two, and be surprised! 🙂
I just noticed something: There is no greater form of respect, than being able to live well and do what you want to do, solely off of the money people want to give you just for doing that.
I think it’s wrong to use the wording of the MAFIAA for a very specific reason: Associations.
They misused the word, to call us “murderous rapist thugs”. Just like they call copying “stealing” and similar bullshit.
If we use those words, we not only trigger the same associations in the minds of people, but actually *validate* them. Which is the worst possible thing you can do to ridiculous accusations.
It’s really sad.
The Pirates are awesome, they have my full suport unlike the fat asses trying to control us, people said fuck sopa pipa and acta, and guess what they didn't listen to us they shitted on us and now CISPA is in power. These people do NOT represent us, they do not listen to us, democracy is but a dream nowadays, its time for REAL change and real liberties.
People need to remember whilst he has good points, it's most of his opinion.
arrrr.
Total bro. Total bro. Very likeable as well.
if people dont get to get rich for every softwere thay are doing there woldnt be so much pirecy…
its like we live in a world that movie ,music , any softwer company are planing to get rich very fast..WORK LIKE EVERY BODY WORK. hard work and caring about customer will keep people buying your shit and comeback for more and then you get rich and be happy.
this guy is hilarious but no one is laughing. hahah. so awkward. but awesome.
Very enlightening. I understand the Pirate Party so much more.
I agree with his main thought but he is not a good speaker and this speech doesn't feel well thought out, it just sort of wander and meanders