Tell your institution it’s time to commit to the University App Mandate Pledge (UAMP)
act.eff.orgSince the outbreak of COVID-19, universities across the country have rushed to adopt new apps and devices to monitor public health on campus. While a university’s desire to keep its students safe is laudable, many of these programs come with numerous privacy and security concerns, especially when they force students, faculty, and staff to submit to surveillance. This is why we need you to join our call on university leadership across the country to commit to our University App Mandate Pledge (UAMP) (http://eff.org/pages/university-app-mandate-pledge). In a public health emergency, respect for privacy and security is essential for good public health outcomes. People must have trust in public health officials, which requires the opportunity to consent to (or withhold consent from) any surveillance measures put in place. This pledge is a chance for college officials to publicly commit to respecting the privacy, security, and consent of everyone they ask to return to campus.
What is libre culture?
Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.
Some beliefs include but aren’t limited to:
- That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
- That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
- That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
- That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
- That we can all band together to help liberate each other.
Check out this link for more.
Rules
I’ve looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I’ve distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.
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Please show common courtesy: Let’s make this community one that people want to be a part of.
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Please keep posts generally on topic
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No NSFW content
Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it’s perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.
Related Communities
- Libre Culture Memes
- Open Source
- ActivityPub
- Linux
- BSD
- Free (libre) Software Replacements
- Libre Software
- Libre Hardware
Helpful Resources
- The Respects Your Freedom Certification
- Libre GNU/Linux Distros
- Wikimedia Foundation
- The Internet Archive
- Guide to DRM-Free Living
- LibreGameWiki
- switching.software
- How to report violations of the GNU licenses
- Creative Commons Licenses
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