Von: Pirate Parties: Transnational mobilization and German elections «

[…] The (intentionally) very open mode of online campaigning, however, also has its adverse side-effects, such as maverick followers whos views might compromise the party, legions of “trolls” (see also Tina Guenther at sozlog) and a male bias: As opposed to the Swedish Piratpartiet, for example, which had several female candidates on its list for the European parliamentary election, its German counterpart is dominated by male computer professionals. A situation that inspired heated debates in the German blogosphere about whether feminists could vote for the pirate party or not (see, for example, danilola or maedchenmannschaft. […]