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bob@news.vrx.net (Bob Allisat) writes:

>   I advocate that the following document be fully incorporated
>   into the Toronto Freenet constitution and bylaws and that the
>   TFN aggresively promote this work to all levels of government.

>                          Bob Allisat

> ....................................................................

>                     Electronic Bill of Rights

And I would advocate that the aforementioned Electronic Bill of Rights
not be incorporated into the TFN constitution and bylaws without a
second document that outlines specific responsibilities, such as the
following:



                 Electronic Bill of Responsiblities

               Pursuant to and in Conjunction With the
                    Electronic Bill of Rights
 
                               We 
                           Undersigned
                           Free Adults
                          Women And Men 
                          All As Equals


                           Acknowledge:


         The responsibility of respecting other people's right to
         privacy of electronic communications without interference or
         surveillance, and to refrain from partaking in the violation
         of this right

         The responsibility of respecting other people's right to
         navigate in an unrestricted manner through generally
         accessable public, electronic networks, and to refrain from
         interfering in same.

         The resonsibility of respecting other people's right to
         access of public electronic networks regardless of income,
         ethnicity, gender, physical location or disability.

         The responsibility of respecting other people's right to
         access any public article, newsgroup, message or other
         electronic communications from whichever person or area they
         so desire.
 
         The responsibility of partaking in uncensored, unregulated,
         communications to and from unmoderated, public areas in a
         manner that is within the accepted guidelines adopted by
         online communities and in such a manner that it does not
         interfer with other people's right to partake in the same.
 
         The responsibility of forming online communities and other
         electronic resources, and of discussing matters of interest
         with multiple participants, in relevent areas, in a manner
         which does not interfere with the exercise of other people's
         rights to do the same

         The responsibility of not keeping items in personal file
         storage areas on a publically accessible machine that are
         illegal in nature, and would jeprodize the rights of others
         to control and restrict access to private mail boxes and
         other personal, non-public file areas and to deny access if
         they so desire.

         The responsibility of authoring and propagating messages to
         public areas in such a way that cancellations due to
         distrubution (and NOT content) are not needed.

         The responsibility of refraining from mail bombing, automatic
         mailers, large, unrequested file or data transfers and
         similar harassments that would infringe upon the access
         rights of others
 
         The resposibility of abiding by the decisions of due judicial
         process and proper legal proceedings or agreements that are
         the result of any conflicts with a services provider.

         The responsibility of respecting other people's right to
         uninterrupted services and reasonable access to contracted
         electronic services and resources without hindrance or
         prejudice.

-- 
J. Paul Landolt - landolt@passport.ca

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