the ethical social network

Kim Tucker kctucker at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 13:54:16 UTC 2011


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

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On 27 August 2011 15:15,  <judith at movingyouth.eu> wrote:
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>
> 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
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