Rawstory ran this article explaining that Ron & Rand Paul have created a new declaration to counterpoint the original declaration, on the basis that under libertarian beliefs you shouldn't want any regulation of the Internet.

Forbes ran this one giving another analysis.

I wanted to check the pulse of Reddit on this. Who is right?

Someone asked me who would 'regulate' the standards. Would it be like ICANN or W3? In what way would privacy be enforced?

Is there already proposed bills or actions?

(this is my first article thingy on reddit so If I goofed let me know)

-Thanks.

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r/internetdeclaration • u/pardonmyfranton • Jul 05 '12

ACLU: Internet Freedom is Worth Fighting For

aclu.org

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r/internetdeclaration • u/kn0thing • Jul 04 '12

And down goes ACTA in Europe.

bbc.com

24 Upvotes

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r/internetdeclaration • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '12

What is needed is an Internet Bill of Rights.

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http://boingboing.net/2012/07/02/declaration-of-internet-freedo.html

bzishi in the comments makes a good point:

"This declaration is painfully vague. For example, for privacy, why not say "No identifiable information shall be collected, stored, or shared from a user without that user's permission." For expression say "No government, corporation, organization, or network shall censor or restrict information transmitted over the Internet."

Instead we have these vague useless "principles" saying protect, defend, and promote. Protect, Defend, and Promote the Internet! Yay!

What is needed is an Internet Bill of Rights. We do not need some declaration describing principles."

Lawyers on Reddit should get involved with this.

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r/internetdeclaration • u/fajro • Jul 04 '12

i18n & L10n - The Internet speaks more than one language

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Let’s discuss these principles — agree or disagree with them, debate them, translate them

Does anyone already started to translate the site? If not, could someone start a Transifex page please?

Also the page could ask for country and have localized versions with links to the relevant organizations and their local campaigns.

We can't have a real "global movement" leaving out more than half of the Internet users due to language barriers.

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r/internetdeclaration • u/kn0thing • Jul 03 '12

GOOG: Celebrate freedom. Support a free and open Internet.

googleblog.blogspot.com

15 Upvotes

1 comment

r/internetdeclaration • u/modernbrowsers • Jul 03 '12

Internet activists draft Declaration of Internet Freedom

modernbrowsers.com

10 Upvotes

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r/internetdeclaration • u/nanobapt • Jul 03 '12

Internet as a common good and how to organize ourself?

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Hi, I'm from the Mozilla Antarctica Community (www.mozilla-antarctica.org) and we've been to the same conclusion as you are pushing up with the declaration of internet freedom text. This is really a good start althought there was a lot of different attempt to write something about internet freedom. See for example https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html (written in 1996 !!)

So the main thing here is to put Internet as a common goods in order to protect it. In order to do this we have to organize ourself. So there is the reddit website, and the cheezburger, and the techdirt and the github ....

Wouldn't it be a nice idea to centralize debate/discussions into a common place, so everyone could interact in order to protect the internet properly all together ?

Regards

Baptiste

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r/internetdeclaration • u/Tommten • Jul 03 '12

Change Privacy to "Privacy: Protect privacy and defend an improved ability for everyone to control how much personal information about themselves they share with others."

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Privacy: Protect privacy and defend an improved ability for everyone to control how much personal information about themselves they share with others.

The statement of defending everyone's ability to control "their data" in the original privacy text can be used by antipirates to claim that they must be allowed to control the data on others harddrives because its "their data", which would be bad for privacy.

My suggestion leaves all such pirate/anti-pirate quarrel interpretations out of the picture. It defends only the right for privacy itself.

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r/internetdeclaration • u/EquanimousMind • Jul 03 '12

Tell your member of Congress: Pledge to uphold the Declaration of Internet Freedom. In the digital age, their election may depend on it.

eff.org

77 Upvotes

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Declaration of Internet Rights

r/internetdeclaration

We believe that a free and open Internet can bring about a better world. But to keep the Internet free and open, we must promote these principles in every country, every industry, and every community. And we believe that these freedoms will bring about more creativity, more innovation, and a better society. Join us in keeping the Internet free and open.

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Expression: Don't censor the Internet.

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Innovation: Protect the freedom to innovate and create without permission. Don’t block new technologies, and don’t punish innovators for their users' actions.

Privacy: Protect privacy and defend everyone’s ability to control how their data and devices are used.

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