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In article <E4vHC9.8Lu.0.bloor@torfree.net>,
Bob Allisat <ab330@torfree.net> wrote:
> Acceptable Use Policies
> basically say the ISP's
> can do anything they like
> *REGARDLESS* of any enshrined
> rights. Simply because most

An AUP will not allow an ISP to do anything illegal.

> of our constitutions were
> written *before* the digital
> era. And therefore these 

You're rights don't change as the world
shifts form analog to digital domains.

> documents were not designed
> to address our current world.
>
> Here is something that will
> be incorporated into the
> constitutions of all nations.
> Without it our future is
> bleak indeed as Mr. Mamer
> so inadvertantly displays.

Death of the world predicted. Phlegm at 11.

>
>
>                     Electronic Bill of Rights
>
>                         Free Women And Men 
>                          All As Equals
>
>                              Have:
>
>
>         The right to privacy of electronic communications
>         without interference or surveillance.


You have this already under Canadian Law.

>
>         The right to navigate in an unrestricted manner
>         through generally accessable public, electronic
>         networks.

I'm not sure how you'd prevent this.

>
>         The right to access on public electronic networks
>         regardless of income, ethnicity, gender, physical
>         location or disability.

You have this already under Canadian Law.

>
>         The right to access any public article, newsgroup,
>         message or other electronic communications from
>         whichever person or area we so desire.

I'm not sure how you'd *prevent* this.

> 
>         The right to uncensored, free, and uncontrolled
>         communications to and from unmoderated, public areas.

Including the right to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre or slander or libel
sombody?

>         The right to create newsgroups, to form online
>         communities and other electronic resources and to 
>         discuss matters of interest to multiple participants,
>         without interference, retribution or undue restrictions 

You have this already.

>         The right to control and restrict access to private
>         mail boxes and other personal, non-public file areas
>         and to deny access if we so desire.

You have this already under Canadian Law.

>
>         The right to security and protection from forged
>         messages, cancellations and articles.

Technically impossible. Sorry.

>
>         The right to protection, should we so choose, from
>         mail bombing, automatic mailers, large, unrequested
>         file or data transfers and similar harassments.

Technically impossible. Sorry.

>
>
>         The right to due judicial process and proper legal
>         representation in any conflicts with a services
>         provider.

You already have this under Canadian law.

>
>         The right to uninterrupted services and reasonable
>         access to contracted electronic services and
>         resources without hindrance or prejudice.

If you find such a utopian ISP, let us know.o
>
>         The right to notification, positive verification
>         and approval when and if personal access codes or
>         any other personal and private data are transmitted
>         to anyone by the services provider.

Huh ?

>
>         The right to confidential deletion of all private
>         and personal electronic information from the data-
>         bases of a services provider once we choose to
>         leave.

You have this now under Canadian law.
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Richard Sexton
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