Re: Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and digital sovereignty into their constitution

[Leah Rowe]

thanks, i posted this to r/linux, my twitter and my mastodon. hopefully
enough people will get involved to assist in this effort

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:14:43 +0000
Pen-Yuan Hsing <penyuanhsing@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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:
> 
> ----------
> 
> "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!"
> 
> ----------
> 
> 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.
> 
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