On December the 9th 2014 The Pirate Bay went down due to raids by the Swedish law enforcement. Since then The Pirate Bay went down on the 18th February for an estimated 12 hours, The website was down though there was no trouble with its domain name and name servers, routing visitors to a CloudFlare Error 522 page.
A political machine is an unofficial system of political organization based on patronage, the spoils system, behind-the-scenes control, and longstanding political ties withi â¦ n the structure of a representative democracy.
The key to a political machine is patronage: holding public office implies the ability to do favors (and also the ability to profit from graft). Political machines generally steer away from issues-based politics, favoring a quid pro quo (something for something) with certain aspects of a barter economy or gift economy: the patron or boss does favors for the constituents, who then vote as they are told to.