<story><title>The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea</title><url>https://thepiratebay.se/blog/229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>This makes me upset.  Its upsetting because while yes, information freedom is a very important topic and needs to happen, but it does not trump human freedom.  I&apos;m not sure if this is a straw man or not - but how can they justify working with an entity that has such a horrid human rights record?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>Yes, definitely, we should not stand by while companies host their content in countries known to use torture to extract information, hold prisoners with out trial, hold prisoners with out charge, allow their leaders to execute citizens summarily, execute minors and the mentally retarded, incarcerate people at a rate higher than any other country on earth merely in order to serve as slave labour for the state and state sponsored corporations.&lt;p&gt;Even worse is many of the citizens of this &apos;republic&apos; have been brainwashed by a compulsory education system that they actually live in a democratic republic.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea</title><url>https://thepiratebay.se/blog/229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>This makes me upset.  Its upsetting because while yes, information freedom is a very important topic and needs to happen, but it does not trump human freedom.  I&apos;m not sure if this is a straw man or not - but how can they justify working with an entity that has such a horrid human rights record?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Don&apos;t really know why or if they are doing this, but the PirateBay&apos;s primary purpose is to stay up.&lt;p&gt;If they are pushed to such extremes as to go to North Korea, then it&apos;s ultimately your fault, the citizen of a Western country, for allowing your government to take such drastic anti-copyright measures that ultimately lead to corruption and censorship.&lt;p&gt;Kind of ironic that Internet freedom will be increasingly achieved in our countries by befriending our enemies.</text></comment>