Reposting IBOR draft

Internet Bill of Rights (IBOR)

It’s about time that we bring the security standards that safeguard our democratic institutions to the 21st century. We need protection from international/corporate special interests that might want to subvert our democracy by exploiting social media sites, search engines, etc. Likewise we need anti-trust protection from potential interference in democracy by the tech giants that have become our primary forums for public debate and information flow. As such, these corporations are currently entrusted with unprecedented power with virtually no oversight. Also, we need protection from our own government that might want to pressure/conspire with tech giants to cheat against democracy. Finally we must protect small tech companies/orgs/public forums with minimal impact on democracies from having to comply with the anti-trust regulations. We have a responsibility to ammend our Bill of Rights with the the digital age in mind, or we may soon wake up as slaves.

We the People Declare the Internet Bill of Rights (IBOR) as a digital extension of our God-given unalienable rights to free speech and privacy.

Every public digital entity (website/app/parent company/etc) that in some way processes at least 10% of a politically relevant national market such as media/social media/search engines/etc shall comply with IBOR’s Anti-Trust Clauses (ATC1 & ATC2).

ATC1: An IBOR-regulated entity shall not in any way restrict service or censor content unless there’s an explicit violation of a non-ambiguous rule that applies consistently & indiscriminately to all users.

ATC2: Every restricted user of an ATC-compliant entity has a right to challenge the restriction in court/arbitration.

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies shall not demand any restrictions towards any user from any digital entity, unless they get a warrant, requiring high-likelihood evidence of criminal intent, which may be prevented with the restrictions.

A digital entity can only engage in server-side tracking consensually, and must offer its users the opt-out, “forget-me-now” option.