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The Pirate Party (Template:Lang-ar-at; Template:Lang-fr) is a small political party in Tunisia which was formed on 7 April 2012.<ref name="JORT">Journal officiel de la République tunisienne - Annonces légales, réglementaires et judiciaires, n°42, 7 April 2012, p. 2210</ref> It is the second Pirate party in Tunisia after the Tunisian Pirate Party.<ref>
Melek Jebnoun, « Et si on se retrouvait avec deux « Parti Pirate » ? », Webdo, 13 March 2012</ref>
The party achieved notoriety during the Tunisian revolution. Slim Amamou briefly held a ministry, the world's first Pirate Party politician ever to do so, before resigning to protest against repressive measures by the interim government.<ref>Template:Ar icon History of the Pirate Party 16 June 2012.</ref>
Party platform
On the Pirate Party's official website, it lists its main objectives as:<ref name="Pir1">http://www.partipirate.tn/pp-statuts.pdf</ref>
- preserving the right of every citizen of the absolute freedom of expression, communication, association and assembly
- representation of small investors to protect their companies from traces of intellectual property background
- devoted to a citizen's right to move freely around the world
- direct democracy and the inclusion of digital technology in this area support
- bringing an end to control of the Internet
- dedicated to the neutrality of the Internet
- protecting the freedom of information and independence of investigative journalism
- unconditional and free access to information
- working on the principle of absolute transparency of the government and the public sector
- open government
- promoting alternative systems of copyright and intellectual property
- anti-censorship of all kinds
- defending the rights and freedoms of the individual and the collective, especially with regard to digital freedoms
- use of free software in public institutions in order to adapt to the era of digital technology at the lowest cost and highest performance
- promoting open digital standards
- combating forms of digital monopoly and confront the downsides of proprietary software and the dominance of one party in the market
- elimination of legal obstacles that hinder the right of the media and particularly the media networks, community and non-profit Free
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External links
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