[22919] in North American Network Operators' Group
Digital Bill of Rights? (Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Neill)
Wed Feb 3 14:43:48 1999
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:08:28 -0500
From: Christopher Neill <chris@verio.net>
To: nanong@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.990203132956.17003J-100000@marietta>; from Bob Allisat on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:35:44PM -0500
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:35:44PM -0500, Bob Allisat wrote:
> Christopher Neill <chris@verio.net> writes:
> :
> : <http://www.qual.net/support/aup.html>
> :
> : Our customer, let's call them "X", agrees to our policy. Our
> : policy clearly states that their connection is at will, and
> : can be terminated or restricted at any time by us.
> :
> : So there you have it, CYA.
>
> If every ISP has the same AUP then every citizen
> is forced under duress by a cartel of interests
> into violating their own human rights, freedom
> of expression and civil liberties. So fuck your
> Acceptable Policies! What we need is a Digital
> Bill of Rights <http://fcn.net> to over-ride
> these sinister commercial carte blanche policies
> and protect us from bastards like Mr. Neill.
From the "Digital Bill of Rights":
The right to uncensored, free, and uncontrolled communications to and from unmoderated, public areas.
Define "public", please.
