Digital rights
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| June 1 2025 | Pirate Party of Greece unanimously decided to leave the PPEU and Pirate Parties International, citing ideological differences and lack of productive political discourse. |
| April 2025 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation, accusing the organization of allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda, and questioning its nonprofit status.
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| 2025 |
Pirate Party
Adéla Šípová left the Pirate Party, though she remains a supporter.
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| March 17 2025 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
The Supreme Court of India questioned the Delhi High Court's order to remove details of the lawsuit. Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan emphasized the importance of press freedom and criticized content removal merely for being critical.
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| 2024 | Lost three of its four seats in the European Parliament election. |
| 2024 | Merlin Network's Board was elected, composed of 16 notable executives from various independent music companies and labels, with Darius Van Arman reappointed as Chairperson of the Board. |
| 2024 | EFF's 'How to Fix the Internet' podcast won a 2024 Anthem Award, recognizing its impactful content related to digital rights and internet policy. |
| 2024 | Czech Pirate Party ran 5 candidates in Senate elections, receiving 21,107 votes (2.66%), placing 8th and winning 1 seat. |
| 2024 | Party maintains a strong presence with 3.87% of votes, holding 96 seats and ranking 6th in national elections. |
| 2024 |
Nani Jansen Reventlow
Received ISOC Netherlands 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in recognition of her significant contributions to internet and digital rights.
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| 2024 |
Nani Jansen Reventlow
Published the book 'Radicale rechtvaardigheid' (Radical Justice), a collection of essays outlining a vision for a future of genuine freedom and equality, drawing from her experience as an international human rights lawyer and inspired by anti-racism and social justice thinkers. The book was published in Dutch by Murrow and received positive press coverage in the Netherlands.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Markéta Gregorová remains the sole Pirate Party MEP after the EU elections.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Patrick Breyer concluded his term as MEP, marking the end of the Pirate Party's national elected representation in the European Parliament.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Pirate Party loses all national elected representatives in parliamentary election
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Jan Lipavsky leaves the Pirate Party when the party exits the government.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Ben Polidori left the Pirate Party and joined the LSAP (Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party)
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Marcel Kolaja and Mikuláš Peksa complete their terms as MEPs for the Czech Republic Pirate Party.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Lukáš Wagenknecht's Senate term for Prague 8 ends.
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| November 2024 | Zdeněk Hřib elected as party leader. |
| October 21 2024 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation suspended access to the lawsuit article after a court order, marking the first time an English Wikipedia page was taken down due to a court directive, based on the sub judice principle.
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| September 2024 | Left the governing coalition after Ivan Bartoš was dismissed as regional development minister. |
| September 2024 | The party secured 3 out of 675 seats in regional councils during the September elections. |
| September 1 2024 | Free Software Foundation establishes its new postal address at 31 Milk St # 960789, Boston, MA, operating fully remotely. |
| August 31 2024 | Free Software Foundation closes its physical headquarters and transitions to an all-remote work model, maintaining a USPS postbox at Milk Street Lobby post office. |
| July 2024 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Asian News International filed a lawsuit against Wikimedia, seeking to uncover the identities of editors who characterized the news agency as a government propaganda tool on Wikipedia.
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| June 2024 | Merlin launched Merlin Connect, a solution for emerging technology platforms to license independent music, and renewed its strategic partnership with Meta covering Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. |
| June 9 2024 |
Pirate Party
European Parliament elections held across multiple countries for the Pirate Party, with participation in France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, and Sweden. Despite participation, no seats were won in these countries.
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| February 2024 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky suggested that 1% of Wikipedia articles were 'enemy slander' and proposed creating a native Russian online encyclopedia alternative.
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| 2023 | Merlin launched the Merlin Engage mentorship program, designed to support and develop female leaders in the independent music industry. |
| 2023 |
Right to privacy
India enacted the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, establishing a comprehensive data protection law.
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| 2023 | Associate members gained the ability to make board nominations, joining FSF staff and voting members in this process. |
| 2023 |
Privacy
PIPEDA experienced a second significant legislative review and potential update, continuing efforts to modernize privacy protections with input from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and academic experts.
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| 2023 |
Internet freedom
The Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect, requiring large online platforms and search engines to take measures to limit the spread of disinformation and harmful content, and to increase transparency about content moderation and algorithmic practices.
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| 2023 |
Pirate Party
Ben Polidori began serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for the North region of Luxembourg
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| 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Iran begins censorship of Wikinews.
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| December 2023 | Florie Marie resigned from her role as chairperson of Pirate Parties International after less than one year in the position. |
| December 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Stanislav Kozlovsky, Wikimedia Russia's director, was listed as a 'foreign agent' by the Russian Justice Ministry, expelled from Moscow University, and forced Wikimedia Russia to disband.
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| April 13 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation was again fined by a Russian court.
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| February 6 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the PTA to immediately remove the Wikipedia ban, citing the site's importance for knowledge dissemination.
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| February 3 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Pakistan begins Wikipedia censorship lasting until February 6.
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| February 1 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) degraded Wikipedia services for 48 hours, claiming Wikipedia failed to remove sacrilegious content.
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| January 28 2023 | PPI General Assembly held online. |
| 2022 | The Pirate Party of Austria withdrew from Pirate Parties International. |
| 2022 | Experienced a slight electoral decline, winning 79 seats with 6.62% of votes, but maintaining a significant presence in local elections. |
| 2022 | Czech Pirate Party ran 8 candidates in Senate elections, receiving 28,302 votes (2.54%), placing 9th. |
| 2022 | The party maintained its strong performance with 4,180,324 votes (17.7%), positioning itself as the 3rd largest party and continuing in a coalition government. |
| 2022 | Zoë Kooyman becomes the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, succeeding John Sullivan. |
| 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
The Uzbek government co-hosted the WikiStipendiya article creation editathon with the Uzbek Wikipedia community, indicating a shift in approach towards Wikipedia.
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