A call for openness, neutrality and freedom

[Baptiste DENAEYER]

Hi everyone,

I'm Baptiste Denaeyer, a very new Rep in the REMO program and I participate
in the Mozilla Antarctica Project since January. Anthony Ricaud (part of
the Mozilla foundation) sent me an email asking me if I would like to
be apart of this community. I call it a project now
because this email changed the way I saw things (and I thank Anthony for
that).

So yeah, during 2010 I went to Antarctica and after my return, I had a lot
of news in the cyber world to deal with, because I hadn't access to the web
for one year, only to mail that were smaller than 32kb. Could you guys
imagine that? ;)

Anyway, that's not the purpose of this email. If you do know about the
Mozilla Antarctica community, just jump to POINT 1, otherwise keep reading…

Mozilla Antarctica was an easter-egg first made by David Boswell (
http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/mozilla-antarctica-from-easter-egg-to-reality/).
Since then, a team of motivated contributors tried to work on it. When they
contacted me, they didn't knew really what to do with Mozilla Antarctica.
So I told them that what Mozilla and Antarctica had in common are idealistic
ideas. Mozilla is promoting a free, open and accessible web, and Antarctica
is a land dedicated to science and peaceful actions (and yes, there's
no waror mining
).

>From this idea, we came to the conclusion that we needed to protect
Antarctica because this land is protected against mining and using natural
resources until 2048, but Russia already wanted to prospect there under
science cover. But before doing this we needed to protect Internet from ACTA,
SOPA, Hadopi, CISPA...wait! There is one per day, don't you think?

POINT 1
So why are these idealistic things being threatened? And more importantly, how
and why is this possible? We dicovered that just a few law texts were
idealistic in fact. We would like to change that trend. We want to turn
control, restrictions and closeness into liberty, neutrality and openness.
After some more investigation we discovered that the French Pirate Party
had released a Digital Right Declaration (http://ourdeclaration.net/fr/txt)
translated in 11 languages. And by "released", I mean that there is no
political
affiliation to the text, which means that we could change any part of
it(maybe thinking about digital duty?).
We could turn this declaration into something really interesting, it's
something to live and not a frozen text about digital world.

POINT 2
This is where we need you. If we're going to protect the internet, we need to
do it well, and why shouldn't we make the internet a declared common goods
to the UNESCO. Santiago HollMann proposed to turn this into a Mozilla
Community project.

If you do know how to make this possible, please contact me and tell me
how. And if you feel so, join the Mozilla Antarctica project.

Maybe you're asking yourself what Mozilla-Antarctica is all about. If we
can do that with internet, we could do it with Antarctica.

Mozilla-Antarctica was a easter-egg first but turns out to be a really
creative community. And I think that this is what we need now: creativity.

Let's your imagination talk, let's do this !

Baptiste

[Baptiste DENAEYER]

Sorry I had some trouble with the mailing list so I repost