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.
The main purpose of a political party is to win elections in order to control government and implement its policies. Political parties vie for the support of the public by opposing unpopular leaders from ruling parties, and unpopular policies of the same ruling parties and proposing new programs.
What Is the Purpose of Politics? Politics: what does it mean and why does it exist? (The word politics is singular.) Most of the definitions I found list politics as the art of governance, particularly of a state. While the word is certainly used this way, this seems to describe what politics does rather than what it is.