Ok, I can't keep track of the chaos.
I made this if its useful to anyone. You know what to do.
https://github.com/mgirouard/free-internet-act
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#12Looks like the vandals have taken their toll... Instead of open google doc, this should be a git repo.
edit: Created one: https://github.com/bradherman/Reddit-Free-Internet-Act
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#13Ok, I can't keep track of the chaos. I made this if its useful to anyone. You know what to do. https://github.com/mgirouard/free-internet-act
you beat me to it!
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#14Very interesting that Reddit could really be emerging as a force for good on the internet...not just a bunch of time-wasting, cry babies. Don't mean to be harsh, but while there is some good stuff, there is a lot of just time-burning stuff.
That being said, if they are able to marshal the productive collective and produce actual legislation that can work - that would be very interesting.
I wonder if legislation ever written by 'non-legislators' has ever been passed into law.
Is that even legal?
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#15Full text: http://pastebin.com/7VY4VTLn
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like it's becoming a "status quo" document because, for the sake of credibility, noone wants to stand up on copyright, privacy, censorship, and human rights. The "what if someone posts illegal content!?" questions dominate, just like in the Reddit meshnet plan. We've been having this debate about the Internet for years and decades later, we're still not willing to stand up for the bad speech to save the good…
>the US and Canada BOTH have a 1984 bill in play as I write What bills are you referring to, specifically?
US: HR.1981
Canada: Bill C-30
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#17I have a preference for "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" written by John Perry Barlow in 1996:
https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html
It's more inspirational and make it more universal. Just like the "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"...
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#18Here's a question - is there any piece of Javascript you would wack into a html page which would allow users to query the contact details of their representatives? It would be good if this was as international as possible (though in some countries it would be impossibl).
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#19Very interesting that Reddit could really be emerging as a force for good on the internet...not just a bunch of time-wasting, cry babies. Don't mean to be harsh, but while there is some good stuff, there is a lot of just time-burning stuff. That being said, if they are able to marshal the productive collective and produce actual legislation that can work - that would be very interesting. I wonder if legislation ever…
Between lobbyists, interest groups, the executive branch, staff attorneys, various agencies and congressional staff I doubt even a significant minority of law is written by actual legislators.
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#20This is precisely what reddit should be used for. Only the google doc has been fucked up.