Hi all, A few relevant links of relevance to this topic:
http://wiki.autonomo.us/Main_Page http://fcforum.net/en/charter http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox and possibly: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/07/unlike-us/ K ---- On 27 August 2011 15:15, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > in the last few years, many social networks appeared on the Internet. Some > of them define themselves as free (as in free speech), while others don't > care about their users fundamental rights. > > I think it's time to sort them with a definition. > > This is the reason why I tried to write down the concept of ethical social > network. > > > > I. The ethical social network > > Ethical is not about price, neither about the only freedom of the source > code. It is about the recognition and the respect of user freedoms: > > - to recognize and respect the privacy of all communications exchanged by > users, > - to recognize and guarantee the same rights to every user, > - to only distribute to users free software, > - to allow full interoperability towards other social networks. > > II. How to respect those freedoms? > > First: the communication protocol > > The communication protocol must be open. > > Second: the software > > The software specific to the social network must be under a free software > licence, as its dependencies. The whole software distribution, including > the server part, must be available to users. > > Three: the respect of the user data privacy > > Each user should use his own servers. > > The communication protocol of the social network and software must let the > user be able to decide freely, clearly and efficiently what to do with > each of his data and his account: the user may decide for each > communication who are the recipients, even possibly the general public. > > Users must be warned constantly that once they publish their data, those > may be known to the general public, including current or future employers > and the government. > > Concerning the data hosted on other servers than the user's own, the delay > to delete a post or to close an account must be quick once the user > requests it. The closure or the deletion must be definitive, no data must > be available to the social network once it is done. > > Four: the social network services > > Every service available to users through the social network should not > appropriate users data or track them. > > What do you think about it? Any suggestions? > > Judith Lukoki > +33 (0)6 15 94 50 23 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
