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| 2025 |
Pirate Party
Adéla Šípová left the Pirate Party, though she remains a supporter.
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| 2024 | EFF's 'How to Fix the Internet' podcast won a 2024 Anthem Award, recognizing its impactful content related to digital rights and internet policy. |
| 2024 | Czech Pirate Party ran 5 candidates in Senate elections, receiving 21,107 votes (2.66%), placing 8th and winning 1 seat. |
| 2024 | Party maintains a strong presence with 3.87% of votes, holding 96 seats and ranking 6th in national elections. |
| 2024 |
Nani Jansen Reventlow
Received ISOC Netherlands 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in recognition of her significant contributions to internet and digital rights.
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| 2024 |
Nani Jansen Reventlow
Published the book 'Radicale rechtvaardigheid' (Radical Justice), a collection of essays outlining a vision for a future of genuine freedom and equality, drawing from her experience as an international human rights lawyer and inspired by anti-racism and social justice thinkers. The book was published in Dutch by Murrow and received positive press coverage in the Netherlands.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Markéta Gregorová remains the sole Pirate Party MEP after the EU elections.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Patrick Breyer concluded his term as MEP, marking the end of the Pirate Party's national elected representation in the European Parliament.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Pirate Party loses all national elected representatives in parliamentary election
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Jan Lipavsky leaves the Pirate Party when the party exits the government.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Ben Polidori left the Pirate Party and joined the LSAP (Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party)
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Marcel Kolaja and Mikuláš Peksa complete their terms as MEPs for the Czech Republic Pirate Party.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Lukáš Wagenknecht's Senate term for Prague 8 ends.
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| November 2024 | Zdeněk Hřib elected as party leader. |
| October 21 2024 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation suspended access to the lawsuit article after a court order, marking the first time an English Wikipedia page was taken down due to a court directive, based on the sub judice principle.
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| September 2024 | Left the governing coalition after Ivan Bartoš was dismissed as regional development minister. |
| September 2024 | The party secured 3 out of 675 seats in regional councils during the September elections. |
| September 1 2024 | Free Software Foundation establishes its new postal address at 31 Milk St # 960789, Boston, MA, operating fully remotely. |
| August 31 2024 | Free Software Foundation closes its physical headquarters and transitions to an all-remote work model, maintaining a USPS postbox at Milk Street Lobby post office. |
| July 2024 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Asian News International filed a lawsuit against Wikimedia, seeking to uncover the identities of editors who characterized the news agency as a government propaganda tool on Wikipedia.
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| June 9 2024 |
Pirate Party
European Parliament elections held across multiple countries for the Pirate Party, with participation in France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, and Sweden. Despite participation, no seats were won in these countries.
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| February 2024 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky suggested that 1% of Wikipedia articles were 'enemy slander' and proposed creating a native Russian online encyclopedia alternative.
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| 2023 |
Right to privacy
India enacted the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, establishing a comprehensive data protection law.
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| 2023 | Associate members gained the ability to make board nominations, joining FSF staff and voting members in this process. |
| 2023 |
Privacy
PIPEDA experienced a second significant legislative review and potential update, continuing efforts to modernize privacy protections with input from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and academic experts.
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| 2023 |
Internet freedom
The Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect, requiring large online platforms and search engines to take measures to limit the spread of disinformation and harmful content, and to increase transparency about content moderation and algorithmic practices.
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| 2023 |
Pirate Party
Ben Polidori began serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for the North region of Luxembourg
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| 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Iran begins censorship of Wikinews.
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| December 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Stanislav Kozlovsky, Wikimedia Russia's director, was listed as a 'foreign agent' by the Russian Justice Ministry, expelled from Moscow University, and forced Wikimedia Russia to disband.
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| April 13 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation was again fined by a Russian court.
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| February 6 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the PTA to immediately remove the Wikipedia ban, citing the site's importance for knowledge dissemination.
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| February 3 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Pakistan begins Wikipedia censorship lasting until February 6.
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| February 1 2023 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) degraded Wikipedia services for 48 hours, claiming Wikipedia failed to remove sacrilegious content.
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| 2022 | Experienced a slight electoral decline, winning 79 seats with 6.62% of votes, but maintaining a significant presence in local elections. |
| 2022 | Czech Pirate Party ran 8 candidates in Senate elections, receiving 28,302 votes (2.54%), placing 9th. |
| 2022 | The party maintained its strong performance with 4,180,324 votes (17.7%), positioning itself as the 3rd largest party and continuing in a coalition government. |
| 2022 | Zoë Kooyman becomes the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, succeeding John Sullivan. |
| 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
The Uzbek government co-hosted the WikiStipendiya article creation editathon with the Uzbek Wikipedia community, indicating a shift in approach towards Wikipedia.
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| December 2022 | EFF joined 56 other digital advocacy organizations in calling for internet infrastructure providers to cease content policing of websites they service. |
| November 1 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
A Russian court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 2 million rubles for not deleting two articles on Russian Wikipedia.
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| July 20 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Roskomnadzor ordered search engines to mark Wikipedia as a violator of Russian laws due to its refusal to remove articles about the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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| April 7 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
A court in Brest sentenced Wikipedia user Pavel Pernikaŭ to two years in prison for three edits on Russian and Belarusian Wikipedia. He was found guilty of 'discrediting the Republic of Belarus' under article 369-1 of the Criminal Code of Belarus.
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| April 7 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Second documented Wikipedia censorship event in Belarus.
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| March 31 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Roskomnadzor threatened to fine Wikipedia up to 4 million rubles if it did not delete 'misinforming' information about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| March 11 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Belarusian political police GUBOPiK arrested and detained Mark Bernstein, a Russian Wikipedia editor from Minsk, for editing the article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was accused of spreading 'anti-Russian materials' and violating Russian 'fake news' laws.
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| March 11 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Belarus begins censorship of Wikipedia on this date.
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| March 1 2022 |
Censorship of Wikipedia
Roskomnadzor threatened to block Russian Wikipedia over the article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, claiming it contained 'illegally distributed information'.
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| February 2022 | The IRS agreed to halt their facial recognition program after AJL and other organizations sent letters to legislators and requested intervention, marking a significant victory for the organization's advocacy against invasive facial recognition technologies. |
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