anti-establishment movements and the information age
Mirko Boehm
mirko.mb.boehm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 11:19:48 UTC 2016
Hello,
> On 08 Feb 2016, at 11:28, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro> wrote:
>
>> We constantly reach out to political parties, attend their meetings, give
>> workshops, talk with staffers, etc.
>>
>
> How does this group appear in relation to others?
>
> The main thing that caught my eye is that they are unified by an
> emphasis on democracy, despite the fact that many of the people involved
> have significant differences in other policy areas. Democracy is also
> something that is now heavily connected with digital freedom. In
> Richard Stallman's talk the other day, he was emphasizing software
> freedom should be considered as fundamental as the right to public
> assembly or the right to vote.
I agree with your argument that groups aiming at improving democracy are better served with free software. I would be rather careful with connecting Richard’s statements with the demand for democracy in the EU. Mandatory software freedom as he demands and democracy are not inherently connected.
> Has there been any effort to survey or catalog free software use in such
> groups, parties, lobbying organizations and see how it evolves over
> time? Some are notoriously bad at it, having something to compare them
> against could be helpful.
I am not aware of something like this.
Cheers,
Mirko.
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