- Last July we received the Council’s protest, in which a Charter of Digital Rights has been presented in Spain, in which the comments of the Council and other institutions have not been heeded: these were petitions in favour of minority languages and none has been incorporated into the text. We have obtained the Charter of Rights and the document presented by the Council, comparing it, and the fragility of the Spanish Charter has been highlighted. In this monolingual and uninational country there is no Spanish language, and that of no one deserves to be mentioned. This is the conclusion we draw.
We shared two documents on the network:
- Letter from the Government of Spain, submitted in July 2021.
- Set of Council comments sent to the Government in December 2020.
The Council document has a bilingual introduction and the appointment of the entities that accede to it: Platform per la Llengua catalana, A Mesa Pola Normalization Linguistics of Galicia and Obra Cultural Balear.
Seven comments are presented below, none in favour of doing away with anything, increases in all cases. Some increases relate to demands and commitments in favour of international language rights, others to single phrases added to the explanations of rights contained in the text and referring to the linguistic diversity of the Spanish State.
None has been inserted into the text. This Spanish letter of digital rights does not refer to language or Spanish, because there is no need: what it brings is a monolingual and uninational vision.
For example, what the Council called for in relation to the principle of equality:
The provisional text did not mention the increase that could reasonably result in:
Another interesting aspect, fundamental to digital regulation: the right of citizens to use one or another official language in their relations with the administration. The Council extended it as follows:
And so it is in the Charter:
Nothing about language, of course. Just in case. Do not complain about interfaces or IT procedures, because their right to interoperability is above that of the public.
And all in those conditions.