Simonet participated in the cantonal elections of
Bern 2010 on first position on the list "PIRATEN" in district Biel-Seeland and got 726 votes, which wasn't enough to gain a seat. At those elections Pirate Party Switzerland got 0.7% of all votes. At the national elections 2011 he was on list place 3 and got 4904 votes. Again Pirate Party Switzerland got 0.7% of all votes in the canton of Bern. Simonet owns a lobbyist passport for the federal parliament building which he got from Lukas Reimann, a national council of the political party "SVP". From December 13, 2010 to December 24, 2010 Simonet wrote about digital policy for the well known newspaper
Neue Zürcher Zeitung and for the IT Magazine
Netzwoche he was interviewed as an expert on surveillance and privacy. In his own blog he often writes about digital policy, some posts were already overtaken by the students portal students.ch and the newspaper
Tages-Anzeiger. He is a member of the committee for more transparency in politics and fought against the reintroduction of fixed book prizes as a member of the committee against expensive books. Because of his nearness to music Simonet advocates a liberal copyright law which allows the free exchange of culture. Therefore, the Swiss rapper
Gimma attacked him in an open letter. Simonet answered in a blog post with the title «Das Internet ist kein Nazi-Regime» (the internet is not a Nazi regime). == Others ==