[pp.int.general] Looking for a Declaration of Internet rights? Here goes.

[Valentin Villenave]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke <drahflow at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Article 6: "No one shall impose the usage or possession of a particular digital technology, either in hardware or software."
> Actually, providers do that all the time. If I speak FidoNet protocol (http://www.ftsc.org/docs/fts-0001.016)
> directly to my _Internet_ provider, I doubt I will receive much success. :/

That doesn't mean we can't try :)

> Article 1.2: "Only the legal authority may decide of the surveillance, the interception or the banning of a stream or of a piece of data."
> I propose the stricter
> "Only the legal authority may decide of the surveillance of a stream or a piece of data.
>  No person, organization or whatever may intercept, change or ban a stream or a piece of data, except if the designated recipient of the data explicitely stated otherwise."
> (The weird "except" clause is for anti-virus software, which actually bans streams of data all the time :))

I like it. I've fwded it to the writers.

> Roughly indeed:
> "Any legal or physical entity may seize the public authority if it considers its rights to be scorned."
> did you mean "appeal to" or something?

Hehehe. Hadn't seen that one :)
Thanks, corrected.

Cheers,
Valentin