{"id":2596,"date":"2011-03-10T18:26:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2011-03-10T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:26:31","slug":"what-next-for-the-social-network-users-bill-of-rights-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/03\/10\/what-next-for-the-social-network-users-bill-of-rights-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"What next for the Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A broadly-recognized social network users\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bill of rights will be a huge step forward for online freedom and privacy. For me, and hundreds of millions of others, sites like Facebook, Twitter, tribe.net, and free-association are how I stay in touch with friends and family. As Voces Contra Las FARC, Barack Obama, #iranelection, and hundreds of other campaigns have shown, social network sites are also vital for political activism. And yet, today we the users of the sites have only minimal rights.<\/p>\n

— me, in It’s time for a Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights<\/a>, June 2010<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today’s SXSW panel Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights: You Decide<\/a> is a great chance to rekindle the energy on the #billofrights (as we like to say on Twitter).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Panelists Christina Gagnier, Lisa Borodkin, and Jack Lerner all spoke at last year’s ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference last year when we crafted the document.*\u00c2\u00a0 Alex Howard of O’Reilly joins them.\u00c2\u00a0 Cool!\u00c2\u00a0 Check out the #snubor hashtag!<\/p>\n

I like what CFP has done because I think they’ve covered all the bases, and they’ve done it with language that 95 percent of Web users can understand.<\/p>\n

— Terry Sweeney, A Manifesto in the Name of Privacy<\/a>, Internet Evolution<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since last June, the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have helped highlight the importance of social networks for political purposes, the Commerce Department has called for an online Privacy Bill of Rights<\/a> — and ongoing news stories like A Chinese Activist and Mark Zuckerberg’s Dog <\/a>continue to spotlight many social network sites’ challenges with free speech, and pseudonymity.\u00c2\u00a0 With this year’s CFP<\/a> scheduled for Washington DC in mid-June, now’s a perfect time to get serious about organizing.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few ideas:<\/p>\n