Comment Re:There are more important issues right now (Score 3, Interesting) 152
Though the name implies it, a large part of the pirate parties program is citizen rights, including non-censorship and anti-surveillance.
What they think of other topics is mostly irreleveant - in germany the stance on surveillance of the politicians of the big parties already changed siginficantly when they noticed that there is indeed a large percentage of people who care about it.
The fact that they just behave that way because they are afraid to lose votes isn't really relevant.