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  2. title: Help Chile write free software values, privacy, and digital sovereignty into their constitution
  3. date: 2022-01-19
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  6. For those out of the loop, a group which included myself up until recently,[^1]
  7. Chile is in the midst of a revolution. They're fighting against the increased
  8. cost of living, privatization of essential services, and worsening inequality
  9. — problems facing everyone who lives under capitalism around the world
  10. — but in Chile's case, the people actually seem to be winning. The
  11. Chilean people voted overwhelmingly in favor (80% with a 50% turnout) of
  12. rewriting the constitution, a constitutional convention has been assembled, and
  13. a call has been made for the Chilean people to re-define their country's values.
  15. [^1]: No surprise given that promising popular political movements like this are deliberately under-reported in western media, especially when they're happening in the global south. We can't have anyone wondering if we could make similar changes here!
  17. One of the answers to this call arrived in my inbox courtesy of Felix Freeman, a
  18. Chilean hacker and activist for free software, free culture, and free knowledge,
  19. who asked me to signal boost [Propuestas constitucionales para Chile en la era
  20. de la información][6], three proposals to establish the following principles in
  21. the foundations of Chilean law:
  23. 1. [Access to knowledge][3]
  24. 2. [Technological and digital sovereignty][4]
  25. 3. [Internet privacy][5]
  27. [3]: https://www.EraDeLaInformacion.cl/acceso
  28. [4]: https://www.EraDeLaInformacion.cl/soberania
  29. [5]: https://www.EraDeLaInformacion.cl/privacidad
  30. [6]: https://www.eradelainformacion.cl/
  32. Each of these proposals needs 15,000 Chilean signatures to be proposed at the
  33. constitutional convention, and I'd like you to help Felix and other advocates
  34. for digital freedoms in Chile get the attention they need. These links provide
  35. the canonical Spanish text and the appropriate place for Chileans to register
  36. their support. Felix was also kind enough to provide me with English
  37. translations for your reading pleasure:
  39. 1. [Access to knowledge][0]
  40. 2. [Technological and digital sovereignty][1]
  41. 3. [Internet privacy][2]
  43. [0]: https://www.eradelainformacion.cl/docs/acceso_eng.pdf
  44. [1]: https://www.eradelainformacion.cl/docs/soberania_eng.pdf
  45. [2]: https://www.eradelainformacion.cl/docs/privacidad_eng.pdf
  47. This is exactly the kind of political action we need to enshrine the values of
  48. free software, free culture, and free knowledge within Chilean law. I hope you
  49. will support their efforts to score a victory for the Chilean people and for
  50. global digital freedom. Opportunities like this one are vanishingly rare, and
  51. need to be taken advantage of before they're gone. The call for signatures ends
  52. on February 1st — act fast!