DECLARATION of INTERNET FREEDOM

We believe that a free and open Internet can bring about a better world. To keep the Internet free and open, we call on communities, industries and countries to recognize these principles. We believe that they will help to bring about more creativity, more innovation and more open societies.
We are joining an international movement to defend our freedoms because we believe that they are worth fighting for.

Let’s discuss these principles — agree or disagree with them, debate them, translate them, make them your own and broaden the discussion with your community — as only the Internet can make possible.

Join us in keeping the Internet free and open.

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Declaration

We stand for a free and open Internet.

We support transparent and participatory processes for making Internet policy and the establishment of five basic principles:

Expression: Don't censor the Internet.
Access: Promote universal access to fast and affordable networks.
Openness: Keep the Internet an open network where everyone is free to connect, communicate, write, read, watch, speak, listen, learn, create and innovate.
Innovation: Protect the freedom to innovate and create without permission. Don’t block new technologies, and don’t punish innovators for their users' actions.
Privacy: Protect privacy and defend everyone’s ability to control how their data and devices are used.


Sign the Declaration

Individuals: Go to the action pages at Access, CREDO, EFF or Free Press to add your name.

Organizations: Submit your organization or company's name in the form below. We'll follow up with a confirmation that you have the authority to sign on.
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First Name *
Last Name *
Your Position *
Your Email Address *
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Are you an individual activist? See below for links to take action with participating organizations.

Signers

Organizations & Companies

Access Take Action!
Access Humboldt
Alliance for Community Media
American Civil Liberties Union
Amicus
Amnesty International
Association for Progressive Communications
Association for Women's Rights in Development
Attachments.me
Aviary
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Bits of Freedom
Bolo Bhi
Boulder Denver New Tech
Boxee
Breadpig
Bytes for All
CALPIRG
Calyx Institute
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Digital Democracy
Center for Media Justice
Center for Rural Strategies
Centre for Internet and Society
Cheezburger, Inc.
Circa
ColorOfChange.org
Communication Is Your Right
CREDO Take Action!
DailyKos
Demand Progress
Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.
Digital Sisters
Echo Ditto, Inc.
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
Electronic Frontier Foundation Take Action!
Entertainment Consumers Association
Fark, Inc.
Favstar
Fight for the Future Take Action!
Foundry Group
Free Press Take Action!
Free Speech TV
Future of Music Coalition
Girl Develop It
Globalvision
Global Voices Advocacy
Greenlining
Hackers & Founders
Harry Potter Alliance
Human Rights First
Hypothes.is
If I Were President
Imagine K12
Industry Ears
Institute for Local Self Reliance
Internet Infrastructure Coalition
The Julia Group
Laughing Squid
Levo League
Loudsauce
Lower Third Productions
MacUser magazine
MakerBot
May First/People Link
Media Equity Collaborative
Media Literacy Project
Mother Jones
Mozilla
National Hispanic Media Coalition
NationBuilder
Native Public Media
Netroots Nation
NY Tech Meetup
Open Knowledge Foundation
OpenMedia.ca
OpenMIC
Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation
Orbotix
Organizing 2.0
Participatory Politics Foundation
People's Production House
Personal Democracy Media
Privacy Camp
Prometheus Radio Project
Public Knowledge
Public News Service
Rebuild the Dream
reddit
Reporters Without Borders
Rewired State
Save Hosting Coalition
SEOmoz
Shuttleworth Foundation
SideTour
SMBC
Sonic.net
Techdirt
Techstars
350.org
Topspin
Trippi & Associates
Truthout
Tucows
Union Square Ventures
UNITY Journalists
The UpTake
Upworthy
Ushahidi
Witness
Women In Media & News
Women Who Tech
Women's Media Center
Y Combinator
Yesware
Young Rewired State

http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom

This is good, but I can tell you it's gonna be a long and eternal fight because the powers that be will buy their way into killing the net and it will be just like the lame TV they control.