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Article #569The Electronic Bill of Rights
From: Bob Allisat
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
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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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,68b60be1109d2ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 103731,68b60be1109d2ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,68b60be1109d2ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,68b60be1109d2ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public From: ab330@torfree.net (Bob Allisat) Subject: The Electronic Bill of Rights Date: 1997/01/31 Message-ID: <E4vHF2.8ns.0.bloor@torfree.net> X-Deja-AN: 213597746 organization: Toronto Free-Net newsgroups: torfree.general,tor.general,ont.general,can.infohighway