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|colours = Purple |blank1_title = |blank1 = |blank2_title = |blank2 = |blank3_title = |blank3 = |symbol = |website = |country = New Zealand |country2 = |state = |footnotes = }} The Internet Party is a political party in New Zealand promoting Internet freedom and privacy. Founded in January 2014 with the support of Internet entrepreneur, Kim Dotcom. The party contested the 2014 New Zealand elections under an electoral alliance with the Mana Movement but failed to win any seats in the House of Representatives of New Zealand. ==History== Dotcom had founded the file-sharing website Megaupload in 2005. It was shut down in January 2012 by the US government and Dotcom was arrested by the New Zealand Police. In September 2013, Dotcom revealed an interest in setting up a political party. On 15 January 2014, Dotcom announced the name of the party and its logo. He intended to hold a launch party on 20 January, two years after the raid on his house and the day before his 40th birthday. He distributed 25,000 tickets but was forced to cancel for fear of breaching electoral law. The Internet Party became a registered political party on 13 May 2014 having started to sign up members on 27 March 2014, the first to do so in New Zealand through the use of a phone app. Dotcom provided funding (NZ$2.9 million) to the party〔(Online Renegade, Wanted in U.S., Shakes Up New Zealand Election, ) ''The New York Times'', 18 September 2014〕 which was the largest personal contribution to a political party on record in New Zealand. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Internet Party (New Zealand)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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