Internet Censorship Boosts UK Pirate Party Membership

It is now among the 1000 most visited sites in the UK.

“Pirateparty.org.uk has
continued to climb up the [Alexa] rankings of popular sites; we are now
at no 737 in the UK, up from 1101 2 weeks ago, and from over 100,000
just a few months ago,” the party announces.

The proxy also boosted interest in the political message of the Pirate Party

“We are seeing a significant uptick in membership and people
navigating the rest of the site,” the UK Pirate Party states. “The
volume of emails and phone calls into the party has also increased
markedly,”

As other Pirate Parties, the UK Pirates fight for an Internet free of censorship and copyright abuse.

“We believe that a free and open Internet is the cornerstone of
modern democracy, culture, education and innovation, and we will
continue to fight arbitrary censorship and bad lawmaking wherever we see
it.”