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Report from the Frontlines in Ukraine

The following is a report from PPI Board member and representative from the Pirate Party of the Netherlands, Mark Anthony van Treuren about his observations during humanitarian missions in Ukraine. Report on my travel through Ukraine Over the past four years, I have travelled to Ukraine many times to deliver humanitarian aid. Normally these trips are straightforward: I drive directly to a storage facility, unload the supplies, spend a day or two with local volunteers and then return home. This journey was different. A group of Ukrainian musicians invited me to drive them between performances in several cities across the country. They perform Noise music—an experimental and often controversial genre …

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Upcoming Board Meeting on August 18th at 17:00 UTC

Our next PPI board meeting will take place on Tuesday, August 18th at 17:00 UTC. The last meeting was postponed due to quorum issues. All official PPI proceedings, board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll be happy to have you. Where: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board Agenda: Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/feb10-2026boardmeeting-qjxl0re All of our meetings are posted to our calendar: https://pp-international.net/calendar/ We look forward to seeing visitors. Thank you for your support, The Board of PPI

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Stop Killing Social Media Accounts! A case against harsh inactive account policies

PPI recently signed on to the Stop Killing the Internet initiative: https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/ As part of our support for this movement to preserve and promote digital rights we present the following discussion that was drafted collaboratively by members of our community about our concern over the forced removal of social media accounts and content. Why can’t our social media accounts be online forever? When we die our friends and family are still there. They want to remember us, and our social media accounts are one important way for them to look back and remember us. However, a recent article by Koa DeMarzo called “A Case Against Forever,” <https://www.techpolicy.press/a-case-against-forever-why-cloud-and-social-media-need-inactivitybased-deletions/> frames indefinite data …

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PPI at the United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance

The first session of the United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance took place in Geneva on 6 and 7 July 2026. PPI UNOG representatives Carlos Polo of PPCH and Alexander Kohler of PPDE attended the event, joining many global heavyweights to help decide the future of artificial intelligence. We are pleased to share some of the photographs Carlos and Alexander sent us. Learn more about the Global Dialogue on AI Governance Artificial intelligence is already influencing everyday life. Decisions about its development and use cannot be left exclusively to a small number of governments or technology companies. People from every region must be able to participate in determining the …

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Reviewing the 2026 Tübingen Digital Freedom Days

We previously wrote about the Tübingen Digital Freedom Days in Germany, a conference held from 15 to 17 May 2026, the fifth such conference. Several Pirates participated in this conference and have asked us to provide an update about the speeches that were made there. The conference included more than 50 talks and workshops. About the 2026 Tübingen Digital Freedom Days Digital empowerment in uncertain times Borys Sobieski, a former chair of Piratenpartei Deutschland, presented Inclusion in Digital Projects. His practical talk explained how accessibility is often overlooked in open-source projects and showed how relatively simple changes can make digital projects easier for more people to use. Eva Wolfangel, an …

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EU Chat Control

Licking the envelope closed is now mandatory! The old Dutch ‘briefgeheim’ (confidential letter) meant the postal service (and by analogy social media platforms) could not open and read letters. But there were conditions. Postal cards like those that you sent from your holiday location were plain, and openly readable. Those were exempt. That is the current situation for messages online now that the EU has again weakened the ePrivacy directive. The encripted messages that we send are confidential, the others are potentially accessible to anyone. We have to lick the envelope closed, use encryption, for our personal communication to have them private again. As a result of the void in …

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PPI Summer General Assembly Recap

Thanks to everyone who came to the GA. This GA had the largest number of Pirates from a wide variety of countries in a long time. We held quorum with 9 parties voting. In addition, a lot of old and familiar friends came by to visit. In total about 15 different countries were represented. As usual we discussed our continued UN engagement, support for Pirate activities, publication of policy blogs, Think Twice 5, PPI’s finances, membership fees, and the need to keep the organisation accessible to both established and emerging Pirate parties. A statute amendment to alter the statutes to weighted voting, one that would reduce the vote of non-paying …

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General Assembly Today on Jitsi, 13:00 UTC registration, 14:00 UTC start

The PPI General Assembly will take place today, June 20th, entirely online. We hope that many of you can attend. The meeting will take place on Jitsi: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board Join the GA on Jitsi In case we have problems with Jitsi, we will use the following BBB room as a backup: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v Backup BBB Room The GA discussion space remains available on Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net Visit the PPI GA Discourse We look forward to seeing you there.

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China’s escalating crackdown on VPN use

For many years access to foreign media, social media platforms, and independent sources of information in China has been limited through extensive filtering and platform blocking. However, most Chinese could get around these restrictions by using VPNs without any serious consequences. Recent reporting suggests that law enforcement may now be clamping down on users who use a VPN. This worries us very much at Pirate Parties International, and so we decided it was a good time to share more information with our community in the hopes of applying global pressure to stop this. The recent crackdown on VPNs marks a dangerous escalation in digital authoritarianism. The Chinese state is no …

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GA Will Start at 13:00 UTC, Proceedings and Motions will begin at 14:00 UTC

The GA schedule for June 20th is now being updated. Based on the feedback received so far, there appears to be support for scheduling the GA in the early afternoon UTC. This schedule gives both western and eastern time zones a reasonable opportunity to participate. It would correspond to 09:00 in Chile, 15:00 for much of Europe, and 23:00 in Sydney. This appears to be the most balanced option currently available. We therefore announce the following preliminary schedule for the General Assembly: 13:00 UTC – Registration and quorum confirmation 14:00 UTC – Formal opening of the General Assembly 18:00 UTC – Planned closing time There are no elections for this …

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