From: "Steven A. Sullam" <stevesullam@gmail.com>
To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org,
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Subject: Re: Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and digital sovereignty into their constitution
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:51:38 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6efa7c3-967f-a3e4-619c-57a306f691ae@stevesullam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220129021049.52c77b52f472b885e44109b8@minifree.org>
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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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-26 2:14 Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and digital sovereignty into their constitution Pen-Yuan Hsing
2022-01-29 2:10 ` Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-29 3:51 ` Steven A. Sullam [this message]
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