Denis Simonet

Denis Simonet (2011)

Denis Simonet (born May 21, 1985 in Biel ) was the first president of the Pirate Party Switzerland (PPS) from 2009 to 2012 and its press spokesman until 2016. From 2012 to 2014 he was on the board of Pirate Parties International .

Functions with the pirates

Simonet was elected first president at the founding meeting of the Pirate Party Switzerland in Zurich and was confirmed for a further period on December 5, 2009 in Bern and February 19, 2011 in Winterthur. At the meeting of March 4 and 5, 2012 in Visperterminen, he did not stand for re-election. Until 2016 he was press spokesman for the Swiss Pirate Party. In 2012 and 2013 he was elected to the board of directors of Pirate Parties International , where he was responsible for press work and representation in the World Intellectual Property Organization and World Trade Organization .

politics

Simonet has a lobbyist ID for the Federal Palace, which he received from SVP National Councilor Lukas Reimann .

From December 13 to 24, 2010, Simonet blogged for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung about “digital politics” and was interviewed as an expert on surveillance for the IT magazine “Netzwoche”. In his own blog, as President of the Swiss Pirates, he also wrote regularly about digital politics - individual contributions have already been taken from the student portal students.ch and the Tages-Anzeiger . He was also on the committee of the transparency initiative for the disclosure of politicians' income and a member of the committee against the reintroduction of fixed book prices. The referendum came about and the Swiss people rejected the reintroduction of fixed book prices in the national vote .

Due to his proximity to music, Simonet advocates liberal copyright law, which enables the free exchange of culture. The rapper Gimma attacked him in an open letter, to which Simonet responded with a blog post entitled "The Internet is not a Nazi regime". Simonet also spoke about the copyright debate in an interview in the Tages-Anzeiger.

biography

Simonet lives in Ipsach , studied computer science at the ETH Zurich and continued his studies at the Bern University of Applied Sciences - in February 2014 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He is C position in the cadre of the civil defense organization and works as a software developer. He is also a founding member of the Swiss Privacy Foundation and an actuary on the board of the Freethinkers Section Bern. One of his hobbies is the piano. In cooperation with the film music maker MG-Rizzello, two songs were created from his two compositions, which he published on SoundCloud . He also composed the jingle for the independent podcast parrot.fm . Simonet is the editor of the news magazine Bottle Post of the Pirate Party Germany .

Other

Simonet was the contact person for wikileaks.ch, a link to the whistle blowing platform WikiLeaks , which was set up after a board resolution on June 8, 2010. Because of this, and because he met Julian Assange for dinner in Geneva, the Swiss Pirate Party was in the international spotlight in December 2010.

At the founding assembly of Pirate Parties International , he represented the Pirate Party Switzerland as a delegate. In December 2013 he attended as a representative of Pirate Parties International, the ninth Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Bali , Indonesia .

Web links

Commons : Denis Simonet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ User profile ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Simonet's blog  
2. ↑ Minutes of the board meeting on April 24, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Tweet
4. ↑ Denis Simonet presides over the Pirate Party , NZZ online, December 6, 2009.
5. ^ Election campaign 2011: The Pirate Party and its "Society 2.0"
6. ↑ The Swiss Pirate Party is becoming more professional ( memento of the original from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Lobbyists in the Bundeshaus ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Blog post 
8. ↑ A digital policy for Switzerland ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ "Only nudists have nothing to hide" , Netzwoche
10. ↑ The disaster with the horse
11. ↑ Pirates call for more transparent politics ( memento of the original from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Co-Presidium of Fixed Book Prices Referendum ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ Chronology , website of the Swiss Federal Chancellery
14. ^ Open letter from Gimma
15. ↑ The Internet is not a Nazi regime ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Blog post by Denis Simonet  
16. ↑ «The state must not censor» , interview on the copyright debate
17. ↑ Tweet with the announcement of the conclusion.
18. ↑ The establishment of the Swiss Privacy Foundation ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 24, 2010 in Bremgarten AG  
19. ↑ SoundCloud profile
20. ↑ Note in the show notes ( memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , official website of parrot.fm  
21. ↑ Faximile 02/12 ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.6 MB), page 4  
22. ↑ Simonet's author page at the message in a bottle
23. ↑ Minutes of the board meeting of June 8th, 2010 ( Memento of the original of January 11th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ↑ Article on Bloomberg , exemplary example
25. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger: Article on the meeting with Assange
26. ↑ Announcement of the acceptance of the pirates as observers at the WTO ministerial conference ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.