「 USER BILL OF RIGHTS 」



ARTICLE I :

   All users are entitled to engage in equal and uncensored freedom of speech on all digital platforms; regardless of race, religion, sex, gender, beliefs, social or economic status, medical or psychological condition, political, or any affiliation. No platform that permits user posts may discriminate.


ARTICLE II :

   All users have a right to use digital defenses on their person, device, data, and residence. Among others, this includes technologies designed to secure, protect, obfuscate, and/or anonymize a device or user’s data. No device or technology may include backdoor access that violate this basic right.
   Those who handle user data must take active measures to defend and keep it confidential; if unable to do so then they should measure the need to collect such data and opt not to collect such data unless absolutely necessary.

ARTICLE III :

   A user’s device is analogous to a user’s person or residence. It shall not be used, accessed, copied, or transmitted in a way other than defined by the user or warrant. A warrant must be legal, based on probable cause, and specific. Any device under prescribed loan to a user shall be treated no different than a device owned by a user.


ARTICLE IV :

   The data a user creates or shares is personal and private; it shall not be accessed, copied, transmitted, or stored without user consent or warrant. A warrant must be legal, based on probable cause, and specific. All forms of consent must be by user opt-in without cohesion, deception, or discrimination. User opt-ins must always be presented equally, and easily, next to a similarly functioning opt-out option. Similarly, being akin to slavery, no user or device shall be required to engage in data or skill harvesting practices in order for a user to access functions or services. Should a user opt-in to provide data or skills harvesting, remuneration for the service should be provided by the recipient. The recipient of any user data should always be the sole recipient without any legal right to share, transfer, or sell user data. Should the recipient cease to exist or change ownership, the data and skills harvested must be deleted unless a new opt-in has been received from the source user.


ARTICLE V :

   All users shall receive full due process of law with regard to any alleged crimes. A digital crime may not be prosecuted or punished more than once, and only by the laws of the user’s respected governing body(s).


ARTICLE VI :

   Any user accused of a crime must be notified in a timely manner, and as prescribed by the laws of their respected governing body(s). Those laws my not infringe the user’s rights outlined herein, or conveyed by other applicable laws. The user’s digital access my not be restricted or discontinued during the time preceding sentencing unless such access would pose a demonstrable risk to tangible assets or bodily safety. The accused has the right to demand that their trial be publicly streamed by digital means. No legal proceedings my be done in secret.


ARTICLE VII :

   The digital world being essential to modern life, continued education, and payment of debts; no prisoner may be unjustly deprived of electricity, communications technology, food, water, or health and sanitation needs. These needs may be reasonably restricted by the governing body(s) of a convicted user if a threat to safety demonstrably exists.


ARTICLE VIII :

   The digital world being essential to modern life, no communications technology or device may be so prohibitive as to discriminate against user access based on race, religion, sex, gender, beliefs, social or economic status, political or other affiliation, network service, or device or account settings.


ARTICLE IX :

   The practices of planned obsolescence and preventing a user from repairing a device being archaic, wasteful, discriminatory, and generally against the good of humanity; these practices should be abolished. Similarly; discriminating against a user or preventing a user from modifying the physical, software, or settings of a device they own or lease shall be abolished. A company may not attempt to circumvent these legal protections by avoiding the sale/lease of devices to individuals through alternative payment, loan, software depreciation, software blocks, or other subversive means.


ARTICLE X :

   These articles of user rights are not explicit and not exhaustive. Users may have other rights beyond what is outlined; such implied examples as the right to electricity to power a digital device or accessibility options for the impaired. Other non-implied rights may also exist.


ARTICLE XI :

   All network traffic must be treated equally, except that which is essential to public services for the betterment of all users. It is illegal to discriminate against network traffic based on source user, source device, economic agreements, or any other factor.


ARTICLE XII :

   A software license shall not expire except by natural obsolescence of the device it operates on. Software may never be remotely deactivated except by legal warrant. A good faith effort must be made by a software manufacturer to notify users of any change in their support and availability and provide an opt-in and opt-out; a user who opts-out of a change must be allowed to continue using the software in it’s current state.
   Software provided as a service and/or subscription may not discriminate against users based on any of the articles of user rights. If the majority of elements of a software service/subscription could feasibly operate as a non-service, then those elements must be available as stand-alone software under perpetual license, with any service/subscription elements being available separately, both under non-discriminatory standards with regards to these articles of user rights.


ARTICLE XIII :

   If an entity or user violates the articles of user rights it must be reviewed by a legal governing body(s) of the victim in a timely manner. Any legal remuneration for violations must be sent directly to the victims. Any legal remuneration must be at least twice the value of damages, if damages are intangible they shall be treated in excess of the highest possible financial damage; this clause being a timely response to gross calculated value of abuse measured against the cost of penalties being committed against users worldwide.


ARTICLE XIV :

   Governing body(s) should make a good faith effort to create a Universal End User License Agreement alternative and modern laws regarding user rights with regards to these articles.


ARTICLE XV :

   Governing body(s) should make a good faith effort to understand technological advancements for the purposes of forming laws regarding them and the protection of user rights.




| VER.1.1 | 12.29.2023 |


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