re Declaration of Internet Rights (Italian Parliament)

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: October 8, 2018 5:27:17 JST
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Declaration of Internet Rights (Italian Parliament)
> Reply-To: karl () cavebear com
>
> I find the declaration intriguing, but I fear that it will be unable to launch, much less fly, because it is too 
> heavily laden with contentious issues (such as the right to be forgotten - which, by-the-way, I support).
>
> For more than a decade I have been advocating a rather shorter formulation that I believe is an initial step that can 
> be more easily reached.  This formulation is, of course, in need of interpretation in order to sharpen the 
> distinctions that it makes.
>
> First Law of the Internet
>
> https://www.cavebear.com/old_cbblog/000059.html
>
> + Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that
>   is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
>
>    - The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those
>      who wish to prevent the private use.
>
>        - Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing
>          evidence of public detriment.
>
>    - The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as
>      to justify the suppression of the private activity.
>
> (By-the-way, I got the ideas for this out of the old 1954 Hush-A-Phone decision and some of the subsequent cases, 
> such as Carterphone and MIC, that tried to define the boundary between       what was then a monolithic and intensely 
> controlling "the telephone company" and users who wanted to do more than simply talk.)
>
>     --karl--
>
> > On 10/7/18 1:25 AM, Dave Farber wrote:
> > > From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin () polito it>
> > > Date: October 6, 2018 21:23:49 JST
> > > Subject: Declaration of Internet Rights (Italian Parliament)
> > >
> > > Three years ago the Italian Parliament issued a Declaration
> > > of Internet Rights...
> > >
> > > The Declaration is available in several languages here:
> > > http://www.camera.it/leg17/1179
> > >
> > > Direct link to the English version:
> > > http://www.camera.it/application/xmanager/projects/leg17/commissione_internet/testo_definitivo_inglese.pdf
>
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