GREEN PIRATE

Yeah so thought you might want to know about this. Especially if you are a Spanish voter. #votopirata

And they’re not only Pirates, but very exceptional candidates as well. For instance, the head for Barcelona’s constituency is no other than Josep Jover. He is a famous lawyer in Spain for many reasons, but most notably because he managed to overturn in Brussels the Spanish digital tax: an arbitrary charge on all digital equipment, collected to be paid as a compensation to Spanish artists, as for their hypothetical losses due to what they call “piracy”.

Well I don’t know who the other candidates are. It doesn’t say in the source and I am too tired to google, but if you are in Spain you probably already know, right?

I’m sure a lot of people will be interested in this.
I’m just going to give a quick example of one of the things you can do there before you go decide for yourself.

Let’s say I am interested in seeing the politicians and financial supporters of the S. 3804 – Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act.

I can easily see this info here which shows the following list of groups that have contributed finances toward supporting and opposing this bill, as well as the amount of financial support provided.
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