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Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and digital sovereignty
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Pen-Yuan Hsing |
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Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and digital sovereignty into their constitution |
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Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:14:43 +0000 |
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Dear libreplanet,
Only a few precious days left, but I just saw the following post by Drew
DeVault titled "Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and
digital sovereignty into their constitution":
https://drewdevault.com/2022/01/19/Help-Chile-promote-digital-freedoms.html
Relevant quotes from the post:
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"The Chilean people voted overwhelmingly in favor (80% with a 50%
turnout) of rewriting the constitution, a constitutional convention has
been assembled, and a call has been made for the Chilean people to
re-define their country’s values.
One of the answers to this call arrived in my inbox courtesy of Felix
Freeman, a Chilean hacker and activist for free software, free culture,
and free knowledge, who asked me to signal boost 'Propuestas
constitucionales para Chile en la era de la información', three
proposals to establish the following principles in the foundations of
Chilean law:
Access to knowledge
Technological and digital sovereignty
Internet privacy
Each of these proposals needs 15,000 Chilean signatures to be proposed
at the constitutional convention
...
Opportunities like this one are vanishingly rare, and need to be taken
advantage of before they’re gone. The call for signatures ends on
February 1st — act fast!"
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Is the FSF aware of initiatives like this?
Even if the proposals don't exactly use 100% of the FSF's language, I
agree with the linked post that this is an exceedingly rare opportunity
to institutionalise at least some free software values on a national
level, and is worth supporting.
- Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and digital sovereignty into their constitution,
Pen-Yuan Hsing <=