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

[Steven A. Sullam]

This really exciting, enough to get me to post something on this list. I 
think this really is fundamental to ensuring democratic values from the 
ground up.

On 1/28/22 16:10, Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
> 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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