Hi all,
Below the updated version. 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 licence as its dependencies. The whole software distribution, including the server part, must be available to users. The software must be secure. Any flaw should be fixed as soon as possible. Three: the respect of the user data privacy Each user should use his own servers. The communication protocol and software of the social network 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. Any suggestions? Judith Lukoki +33 (0)6 15 94 50 23 http://www.movingyouth.eu _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
