🚀 go-pugleaf

I wrote:
> A news server or an E-Mail
> server open to the public
> may belong to you. It is,
> however, engaged in the
> service of the public. You
> are not allowed to interfere
> in the process. If you do
> you should find another
> line of business. Please.

Karl Mamer (kamamer@interlog.com) replied:
: ... aside from possibly the toronto freenet, the vast
: majority of isps make you agree to a little thing called
: an acceptable use policy that, at the peril of being
: disconnected, requires you to obey certain guidelines
: above and beyond those enshrined in the constitution...

 Acceptable Use Policies
 basically say the ISP's
 can do anything they like
 *REGARDLESS* of any enshrined
 rights. Simply because most
 of our constitutions were
 written *before* the digital
 era. And therefore these 
 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.


                     Electronic Bill of Rights

                         Free Women And Men 
                          All As Equals

                              Have:


         The right to privacy of electronic communications
         without interference or surveillance.

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

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

         The right to access any public article, newsgroup,
         message or other electronic communications from
         whichever person or area we so desire.
 
         The right to uncensored, free, and uncontrolled
         communications to and from unmoderated, public areas.
 
         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 

         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.

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

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

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

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

         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.

         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.

 

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