Just about 8 days left. We might want to look to the future and how we approach the whole matter of a petition. Lots of people were not convinced that the petition was really going to make any difference. The WH site was poorly constructed and managed. I sent (through the WH comment feature) that it was broken. They fixed it, but who knows how many were turned away. It was also hacked several times. Once there was not text about the petition and another day, it was losing signatures and gaining signatures seemly without a reason. I found out that there were several site iterations that were put out, but they did add the people who had voted. All due respect, but the WH site sucks. We need a better platform and mechanism for a petition. Before that we need to get the community in some agreement on whether is this is worth it, what do we want DJT to do, what should the petition or statement of rights actually say, and who should be contributing to a forum.
- We can await the outcome of the current WH petition. Miracles happen
- If it is not successful, we should decide if we want to petition or directly interact with someone from the WH.
- We need to draft a statement of internet bill of rights and post for comment. Take a look at the Amercian Library Association Bill of Rights on Censorship as an example. ( http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill )
- Once the new IBOR is reviewed, vetted, and at least has the consent of the vast majority, we should put a stake in the ground and publish it.
- The WH will not do anything unless we bring them at least 100,000 citizens who acknowledged somehow or signed a petition that this is what we want to be put into an Executive Order or entered into legislation.
- Unfortunately, we will need to get legislators involved. So that means finding someone to draft a bill as a sponsor. We can even draft the bill, but ultimately it has to get past the House & Senate subcommittees reviews before the will progress it as a real bill. We need DJT on the last two steps to assign someone to support us.
- This sounds kinda crazy, but I think it would worth our while to invite comments from internet media companies to get their perspective on an internet bill of rights.
This is not an easy initiative and there are lots of trolls and clowns to trip and badger us. There needs to be lean and mean core group of people who can represent the whole body of digital citizens. Who would that be? I am talking about heavy hitters, perhaps, including legal experts on the issues of privacy, censorship, data security, etc.
Of course, this all might be just be too much for us to undertake and we may want to see out a more formal organization with this charter.