The full video of her address is available here, what follows is a full transcript. All bolded emphasis is by iTWire. Readers of a shy nature might prefer to not read to the end of page 2 where Ms Andersdotter's "call to arms" is eloquently expressed in the direct language frequently preferred by someone so young.
Remember, her language and thoughts represent someone attempting to represent the future; those she rails against clearly represent the past and all the status quo that goes along with it.
Thank you, Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, participants of the Internet Governance Forum 2012. My name is Amelia Andersdotter. I am a member of the European Parliament on behalf of the Swedish Piratpartiet [in English: Pirate Party] since December 2011. I am mindful of the fact that I am one of only two women speaking in the opening session. Also, I am probably the youngest person speaking. I am only 25 years old.
The Piratpartiet wants to change the legislative framework for communication, interaction, innovation and culture. We formed around the idea that communication technologies and culture present fantastic ways of building broad global communities.
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When information, communication and culture can be freely accessible and used, which on the internet is basically always the case, this should be allowed and any exceptions or deviations to that general rule must be kept exceptional.
Unfortunately, laws at both nation state level and the international level are very ill-equipped to achieve these goals. Direct interventions by nation states into communication and cultural flows of their citizens are ubiquitous in the world.
More insidious are the restrictions on communications imposed on users by private network operators or intellectual property rights holders. We hear words like "freedom of speech" and "Human Rights must be respected online" but actually so far very few top political figures in the world have acknowledged, or are willing to acknowledge, that this will require regulatory intervention on some private sectors and also letting go of some of the regulatory hinders that we're currently putting in place to block communications between people.
