{"id":10035,"date":"2011-12-04T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2011-12-04T17:31:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T22:31:52","slug":"openness-party-calls-for-less-openness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/12\/openness-party-calls-for-less-openness","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Openness&#8221; party calls for less openness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Germany&#8217;s youth-dominated Piratenpartei Deutschland,\u00a0the &#8220;German\u00a0Pirates Party,&#8221; has admonished members to stop calling each other names on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>If they must insult one another, they need to stop doing it on the party&#8217;s highly visible social media accounts, said party Sebastian Nerz. He noted that members&#8217; public bickering is embarrassing the party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10036\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/12\/pirate-party.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10036\" title=\"Abgeordnetenhauswahl Berlin - Piratenpartei\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/12\/pirate-party.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pirate Party members celebrate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ironically, the Pirates Party was founded on a platform of increased public openness &#8212; particularly the opening of all government files to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The party calls for unrestricted free speech on the Internet; in particular, opposes Europe&#8217;s data retention policies and Germany&#8217;s Internet censorship law, called Zugangserschwerungsgesetz. It holds that the public has a\u00a0civil right to information and has called for an end to copyright and patent laws, particularly those<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Inspiration\/Articles\/Openness-party-calls-for-less-openness.aspx?p=2\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE for full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Germany&#8217;s youth-dominated Piratenpartei Deutschland,\u00a0the &#8220;German\u00a0Pirates Party,&#8221; has admonished members to stop calling each other names on Twitter. If they must insult one another, they need to stop doing it on the party&#8217;s highly visible social media accounts, said party Sebastian Nerz. He noted that members&#8217; public bickering is embarrassing the party. 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