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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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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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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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Celebrating June 6th as Edward Snowden Day

We recognize June 6th as Edward Snowden Day in commemoration of when the news he provided about the top-secret Prism was first revealed to the world. We hope this day will not focus on the negative aspects of surveilance states but will symbolize a day for digital human rights, privacy, and freedom. We are both celebrating Edward Snowden as a person as well as the meaning of what he revealed and helped us protect, our digital freedom. We honor all of those, like Mr. Snowden, with the courage to speak the truth about a system that still exists today. Thirteen years ago the world learned that the surveillance state is …

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General Assembly June 20, 2026 Feedback Survey

The next PPI General Assembly is approaching, and there are several organizational points that still need to be finalized. The GA has already been published, but without a confirmed time. We now need to agree on the schedule and make sure all parties and delegates receive the necessary information. As part of the preparation, we need to update Discourse (https://ga.pp-international.net/), publish the proposed statute amendments, and collect delegate information. One proposal is to start sometime between 8:00 and 16:00 UTC. We also ask for your parties to update us on any motions or any other business that you would like to share for the GA. We expect a relatively long …

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General Assembly Will Take Place on June 20th

Pirate Parties International will hold a Special General Assembly (GA) on June 20, 2026. The meeting is being called following a special request from the Czech Pirates and other PPI members. The GA will take place online. At the PPI Board meeting on May 5, 2026, the Board agreed that it was necessary to call the GA without delay. The main reason is an urgent technical transition. PPI’s current technical services contract is ending on June 30, 2026, and the organization must decide how to ensure the continued operation of its communication, website, email, and related infrastructure. The Board also discussed the need to bring broader questions to the membership, …

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Let´s Keep Android Open!

Pirates have consistently chosen Android over Apple because it is opensource and free. You buy the phone, so you should be able to decide what apps run on it. You should be able to tinker with it, as you wish. Unfortunately, Google’s new developer verification rules will change that. Starting in September 2026 (just a few months away from now), apps from outside the Play Store will be blocked unless the developer has registered with Google, agreed to its terms, paid fees, and handed over their identity documents. We are raising a big red flag. We must stop this regulation from advancing. Link to global petition: https://keepandroidopen.org/ Google presents this …

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Age Verification Enforcement Concerns

Many pirates have been writing about the growing global movement to enforce age verification on social media and other online forums. We thus started asking our communities for feedback on this issue. This blog outlines the reasons for our concerns. We outline a number of studies and media that document the issue. PPI will continue to monitor this situation and attempt to submit statements at the UN and other international forums to block age verification enforcement. Australia now leads with the world’s first national social media ban for children under 16. In January 2026 France formally passed a law to restrict minors under 15 from accessing mainstream platforms, necessitating age …

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