2011 – The Principles of Datalove - Telecomix

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Manifesto: The Principles of Datalove

• Love data

• Data is essential

• Data must flow

• Data must be used

• Data is neither good nor bad

• There is no illegal data

• Data is free

• Data can not be owned

• No man, machine or system shall interrupt the flow of data

• Locking data is a crime against datanity

• Love data

Context

The first edition of the manifesto was published on February 18, 2011 in the website We Rebuild Interfax, which is no longer available, (1) under the aim of explain what is "Datalove", term that with the time turned into a whole movement (2). Datalove emphasizes in the communication and reflects on the importance of sharing information so that everyone can use it and continue transmitting knowledge (2). In the site where the manifesto was published the authors poited out that there was a PDF version of the text to be printed and subsequently used and disseminated in the way that visitors thought appropriate (1).

Authors

One of the WeRebuild founders, group that gave way to Telecomix, is Magnus Eriksson, who declared that the group started in 2009 in Gothenburg, Sweden, as a defense to the Internet infrastructure that the Telecoms Package endangered by including measures against piracy that endangered the neutrality of the network (3). The Telecom Package was a revision to the Telecommunications Framework of the European Union (EU) that aimed to create a set of common regulations for the telecommunications industry of the 27 EU member states (4).After its constitution, Telecomix was named as a set of net activists committed to freedom of expression, in addition they rejected the figures of members of leaders and members within the group, which led them to be considered as a decentralized international network that seeks to make the Internet a tool accessible to all (5).