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ELI5: What is the importance of the Iceland Pirate Party?
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The Pirate Party, contrary to popular belief, is not a single issue party. They at one point had eight "spokes" (of their platform wheel), including information freedom, freedom of expression & communication, freedom to share, freedom of knowledge, and government/public transparency. Copyright and patents trounce all over these rights (to varying degree). Copyright maximalists called sharers "pirates", and it became a label that sharers ultimately reluctantly embraced, much like "Obamacare" ultimately was embraced by Obama.

The party is important because it's largely composed of technologically literate people who are devoted to securing the freedoms they espouse in the modern digital age.