Subject: Digital Bill of Rights

From: Bob Allisat <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:31:15 +0000

Digital Bill of Rights

Free Women And Men All As Equals Have:

The right to participation, consultation,
oversight, representation and control over
network regulatory, administrative and
technical or governance organizations.

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

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

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

The right to access any public article, news item,
message or other digital 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 forums, to form online
communities and other digital 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, covert message deletions and other illicit
obstructions.

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 digital 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 digital information from the data-
bases of a services provider once we choose to 
leave.

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Available at <http://fcn.net>

Created in December 1995 by numerous citizens
of the Internet. Facilitated by Bob Allisat.
Last modified October 1998.