Re:Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
by coldblues on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:17AM
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Iceland has been a pioneer in internet freedom and privacy, joining the EU will subjugate all it stands for.
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Re:Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
by dkjaudyeqooe on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:28PM
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How do you know that Iceland won't influence the EU in that respect?
Re:Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
by philwelch on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:05PM
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Iceland is one exceptionally small country. The EU consists of 27 countries, all or virtually all of which are bigger than Iceland.
Re:Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
by WillyWonkaJr on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:15PM
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Big countries with lots of oligarchs don't listen to small countries with small GDPs. </cynicism>
Re:Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
by diggan on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:34PM
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That sounds backwards. If Iceland is a pioneer and maybe even a stronghold for those issues, then Iceland’s joining the EU would have a better chance of influencing the entire union about those things. There are already a number of Piratpartiet members in various EU parliaments; adding Iceland would hopefully give them larger influence.
Re:Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
by yownie on Monday December 30, 2024 @09:03PM
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As of the recent parliamentary elections here there are no longer any pirate party MP's in Iceland.
Re:Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
by yownie on Sunday December 29, 2024 @07:50PM
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We have not been!
I speak as someone who has started both political party here (the Icelandic Pirate party) and participated in IMMI (International Modern Media Institute).
Please don't buy into the hype, we have turned over the Silk road servers to the USA despite not having a MLAAT with them and took down Khilafah.is on technicality when it suited us.
We also blocked the pirate bay after our version of MPAA / RIAA complained.