{"id":196,"date":"2012-09-26T05:41:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2017-12-30T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T13:25:37","slug":"pirate-party-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/2012\/09\/26\/pirate-party-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Party Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been watching the developments of the Pirate Party internationally<\/a> with interest, and I hope that the movement can build up some steam over here<\/a>. I think the Pirates biggest challenge is presenting themselves as more than a niche party – even the name ‘Pirate Party’ although it is refreshing and catchy, could become a handicap if trying to appeal to the average Australian voter.<\/p>\n

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The Pirates have the potential to introduce a new mechanism<\/em> to democracy. It is early days and the Open democracy software is still being developed (a lot is better developed in other languages). But the fundamental idea is that a conversation is had on issues (much like a forum discussion), culminating in a vote. The internet means that robust debates are occurring everywhere online e.g. at the bottom of news articles, but an open democracy system would take this debate and demand to have a conclusion hammered out. Arguments could be developed to a state where they have a sound rational framework. I have been studying argument mapping<\/a> recently and it seems that this structure can be applied to open democracy systems. Pirate party are using it for their internal party policy discussions and votes but it has a wider potential application than that, simply it could be used by the whole democratic populace to discuss and vote on any issue where there is contention. [update:I discuss my ideas about open democracy a bit more in this post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

I think this is the platform that the Pirates need to take to the next election, in order to have a wide appeal. I think the slogan “Vote for Yourself” or “Vote to Vote” could capture the idea – pirate party should be about granting continual ongoing<\/em> participation in democracy. I have a vision of an advertisement where a person gagged and in chains is brought to a polling booth, where they are unchained for a few seconds – long enough to tick a box on a piece of paper – then quickly gagged and chained again and dragged off. It’s a bit extreme but it captures the idea.<\/p>\n

Power to the People!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been watching the developments of the Pirate Party internationally with interest, and I hope that the movement can build up some steam over here. I think the Pirates biggest challenge is presenting themselves as more than a niche party – even the name ‘Pirate Party’ although it is refreshing and catchy, could become … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inchiki-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}