Declaration of Freedom on the Internet

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Reporters Without Borders, The Shuttleworth Foundation, Y Combinator, and about a hundred more companies, organizations, and individuals have published the Declaration of Freedom on the Internet . It contains five fundamental principles: freedom of expression, freedom of access, openness, freedom of innovation, and privacy. The initiators invite everyone to discuss the text of the declaration and hope that it will become the ideological basis of the struggle for the independence and freedom of the Network.

Here is its text:

We stand for free and open Internet.

We support transparency and universal participation in the decision making of Internet policies, and we believe that these policies should be based on five principles:
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Freedom of expression. There should be no censorship on the Internet.

Freedom of access. Our goal is affordable and fast Internet access for everyone.

Openness The Internet should remain an open network in which everyone can communicate, read, write, watch, listen, learn, create and invent.

Freedom of innovation. We advocate for freedom of creativity and innovation without limits. We are against attempts to block new technologies or punish their creators for the actions of users.

Privacy We maintain the privacy and the right of everyone to control how their data and devices are used.