What is OPP's Platform/What do you want it to be?

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Mon, 08/30/2010 - 9:55pm

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nedroj

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What is OPP's Platform/What do you want it to be?

Tentative at this time

Instant Runoff Voting (considering)

Voter Owned Elections (factsheet)

US Pirate Party Platform

Oregon Brewed, working families

Free access to basic Internet

Building on basic Internet access for all, we want to work towards closing the computer literacy gap given that the importance of the Internet in modern life has made second class citizens out of those who aren't comfortable in front of a computer. Of particular note are older Americans and Americans who speak English as a second language.

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Tue, 12/07/2010 - 1:35pm

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Translucent

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Free access to public

Free access to public information, and governmental transparency

Mon, 06/06/2011 - 9:10pm

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ArrRoger

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Basic Internet

I'm a grey beard who used a 300 baud modem to connect decades before Al Gore "created" the internet. Today basic service means different things to different people. Free access in the kitchen, bedroom and lavatory of my home is different from free access at the local branches of the County Library for instance. The question is an honest one but a moving target. Access to broadband connections in China are "free" but highly censored. What is freedom worth? Legislate freedom sez Arr.

Sun, 09/18/2011 - 3:53pm

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> Instant Runoff Voting Our

I made, but had to delete, a large response because the forum formatting / software is unacceptable. Perhaps that should be a first issue ;-).

Wed, 09/28/2011 - 7:51am

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Yeah, our webmaster has been

Yeah, our webmaster has been afk, but he's sort of back. In the meantime I got http://or.pirate.is/ started. Connect via facebook group and I can put you in touch with our webmaster if you'd like.

Sun, 12/25/2011 - 10:07pm

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Platform

Instant Runoff Voting, sounds good.US Pirate Party Platform is also great, lots of good stuff in there. I would stay away from the free access to internet (most libraries have this now, requiring this to be in people’s homes for free will be a bit too far for a lot of people). Voter owned elections will also spend a lot of tax payer money, and as such you will get people to fight against you on that a lot more. The keys I would say would be attacking the requirements of “Digital Rights Management” especially under the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act”, in which it is illegal to make backup copies of your own media. Fight against the idea of “Copyright infringement” by people just viewing things online. Don’t fight as hard against the distributors of the files (but keep that in there as well that you don’t think that should be illegal), but keep the focus on the individual viewing the files. Another big one should be “shelved patents”, ones in which someone gets a patent not to develop a product but just to prevent others from competing with them on a totally different product, by reducing the duration of a patent that is not used.

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