Print Me!The Washington Pirate Party has launched ‘pirate.is‘ a blogging service not unlike any other, based on WordPress, with one important distinction — it takes advantage of the legal framework...

The Washington Pirate Party has launched ‘pirate.is‘ a blogging service not unlike any other, based on WordPress, with one important distinction — it takes advantage of the legal framework and protections provided by the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative by being hosted in Iceland, that provides:

 

 

— Whistle-blower protection
— Source protection
— Source-journalist communications protection
— Limiting prior restraint
— Protection of intermediaries (ISPs)
— Protection from “libel tourism” and other extrajudicial abuses
— Statute of limitations on publishing liabilities
— Process protections

This framework is something that almost all Pirate Parties, including ours, advocate at a national level.