The Declaration of Internet Freedom:
2012 Preamble
2012-07-03. We believe that a free and open Internet can bring about a better world. To keep the Internet free and open, we call on communities, industries and countries to recognize these principles. We believe that they will help to bring about more creativity, more innovation and more open societies.
- We are joining an international movement to defend our freedoms because we believe that they are worth fighting for.
- Let’s discuss these principles — agree or disagree with them, debate them, translate them, make them your own and broaden the discussion with your community — as only the Internet can make possible.
- Join us in keeping the Internet free and open.
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- We stand for a free and open Internet.
- We support transparent and participatory processes for making
Internet policy and the establishment of five basic principles:
Internet policy and the establishment of five basic principles:
Expression:
Don't censor the Internet.
Don't censor the Internet.
Access:
Promote universal access to fast and affordable networks.
Promote universal access to fast and affordable networks.
Openness:
Keep the Internet an open network where everyone is free to connect,
communicate, write, read, watch, speak, listen, learn, create and innovate.
Keep the Internet an open network where everyone is free to connect,
communicate, write, read, watch, speak, listen, learn, create and innovate.
Innovation:
Protect the freedom to innovate and create without permission. Don't block new technologies, and don't punish innovators for their users actions.
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.
Protect privacy and defend everyone's ability to control
how their data and devices are used.
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Signers:
Organizations & Companies
- Access Take Action!
- Access Humboldt
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Amicus
- Amnesty International
- Association for Progressive Communications
- Association for Women's Rights in Development
- Attachments.me
- Aviary
- Bill of Rights Defense Committee
- Bits of Freedom
- Bolo Bhi
- Boulder Denver New Tech
- Breadpig
- Bytes for All
- CALPIRG
- Center for Democracy & Technology
- Center for Rural Strategies
- Centre for Internet and Society
- Cheezburger, Inc.
- Circa
- ColorOfChange.org
- Communication Is Your Right
- CREDO Take Action!
- DailyKos
- Demand Progress
- Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.
- Digital Sisters
- Echo Ditto, Inc.
- Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
- Electronic Frontier Foundation Take Action!
- Entertainment Consumers Association
- Fark, Inc.
- Favstar
- Fight for the Future Take Action!
- Foundry Group
- Free Press Take Action!
- Free Speech TV
- Future of Music Coalition
- Girl Develop It
- Globalvision
- Global Voices Advocacy
- Greenlining
- Hackers & Founders
- Harry Potter Alliance
- Human Rights First
- Hypothes.is
- If I Were President
- Imagine K12
- Institute for Local Self Reliance
- Internet Infrastructure Coalition
- The Julia Group
- Levo League
- Loudsauce
- Lower Third Productions
- MakerBot
- May First/People Link
- Media Equity Collaborative
- Media Literacy Project
- Mozilla
- National Hispanic Media Coalition
- Native Public Media
- Netroots Nation
- NY Tech Meetup
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- OpenMedia.ca
- OpenMIC
- Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation
- Orbotix
- Participatory Politics Foundation
- People's Production House
- Personal Democracy Media
- Prometheus Radio Project
- Public Knowledge
- Public News Service
- Rebuild the Dream
- reddit
- Reporters Without Borders
- Rewired State
- Save Hosting Coalition
- SEOmoz
- Shuttleworth Foundation
- SideTour
- SMBC
- Techdirt
- Techstars
- 350.org
- Topspin
- Truthout
- tucows.com
- Union Square Ventures
- The UpTake
- Upworthy
- Witness
- Women In Media & News
- Women Who Tech
- Women's Media Center
- Y Combinator
- Yesware
- Young Rewired State
Individuals
- Hisham Almiraat, co-founder, TalkMorocco.net
- Marvin Ammori, Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society, Affiliate Scholar
- Renata Avila, Global Voices Author, Creative Commons Guatemala.
- Seth Bannon, founder, Amicus
- Jason Barnett, The UpTake
- Sami Ben Gharbia, Nawaat.org
- Yochai Benkler, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- danah boyd, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Diego Casaes, Global Voices Portuguese Lingua Editor
- Vinton G. Cerf, Internet Pioneer
- Susan Crawford, Harvard Law School
- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
- Neil Gaiman, author
- Urs Gasser, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Dan Gillmor, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University
- Nick Grossman, MIT Media Lab, connected.io
- Ben Huh, CEO, Cheezburger, Inc.
- David S. Isenberg, F2C: Freedom to Connect
- Ramzi Jaber, onlinecensorship.org
- Samuel Klein, One Laptop Per Child
- Damian Kulash, OK Go
- Ronaldo Lemos, Center for Technology & Society at FGV
- Heather Leson, Ushahidi
- Rebecca MacKinnon, author, Consent of the Networked
- Andrew McLaughlin, former deputy CTO, White House
- Sascha Meinrath, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation
- Craig Montuori, PolitiHacks
- Glyn Moody, author, Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
- Alexis Ohanian, co-founder, reddit
- John Palfrey, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Amanda Palmer, Musician and performer
- Eli Pariser, Upworthy
- Andrew Rasiej, Founder Personal Democracy Media, Chairman NY Tech Meetup
- Leila Nachawati Rego, Global Voices Online
- Patrick Ruffini, Don't Censor the Net
- Reihan Salam, The Daily, National Review
- Derek Slater
- Elizabeth Stark, Stanford University
- Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
- Aaron Swartz, founder and director of Demand Progress
- Baratunde Thurston, author, How to Be Black
- Jillian C. York, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Barbara van Schewick, Director, Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School- Deanna Zandt, author, Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking
- Jonathan Zittrain, professor and author
Free cyberspace: Netizens propose
New Internet Freedom Declaration
A number of international organizations such as Amnesty International, Mozilla, Hackers and Founders have signed the Internet Freedom Declaration, a document that calls for, among other things, Internet openness, access and privacy.
Today, 35 percent of the world’s population is online. The Internet is an integral part of society and has affected almost every aspect of our cultures and lives. But what many fear is that with the introduction of new regulations, the most open and some say democratic form of communication available today will become a fragmented ghost of its former free self.
That’s why back in January millions came together to protest the Protect IP and Stop Online Piracy Acts (PIPA and SOPA). The two bills never made it past US Congress after over 100,000 websites and 7 million users signed petitions, organized blackouts and used every available means to demonstrate the acts’ faults.
While no one disputes the need for some control over the information available online, what most people are concerned about is how the proposals – SOPA, PIPA and the most recent additions, ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) – basically spell out the end of online freedom.
That’s why a group of more than 100 organizations, businesses and individuals put the declaration online, even creating a special subreddit on Reddit.com in the hopes of sparking a global discussion.
The goal of the declaration, according to some of those who have signed it, is to achieve broader public support and understanding of Internet freedom principles, not merely to avoid mishaps like SOPA in Congress.
Josh Levy, an Internet campaign director from the Free Press, says “what’s great about this is that while we all have our different needs and strategies and desires, we’ve come together around what we understand to be our ultimate goals."
The groups involved in creating the declaration have different policy objectives, and will continue to pursue them in their own ways but Free Press plans to enlist the public to support the declaration’s principles. Its goal, Levy says, is not to get a new law passed around the declaration, but to mobilize people and thus engage policymakers on Internet freedom issues.
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