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"The Internet Freedom Act: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation by preventing the restriction of liberty and preventing the means of censorship. IFA will allow internet users to browse freely without any means of censorship, users have the right to free speech and to free knowledge; we govern the content of the internet, governments don't. However enforcements/laws must also be put into place to protect copyrighted content.

IFA needs the internet's support and help in creating then passing this bill through all major nations. Promote freedom, help IFA."

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The Internet Freedom Act (AKA Free Internet Act): An international bill to promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by preventing the restriction of liberty, and for other purposes.

Title I - Definitions (Need help on definitions!)

Censorship - The restriction of digital access and the distribution of information, media, videos, links for any number or grouping of people.

Information -

Media - The channels and tools used for the storage and transmission of data.

Webpage - A document or resource accessible through a browser via an internet protocol (IP) address or domain name.

File sharing - The storage and transfer of data for the purpose of allowing a second party access to the data.

Electronic communication - The storage and transfer of data representing either text, audio or video for the purpose of transmitting a message to either an individual or group.

Data - Digital information stored in binary form.

Transferral of Data - The physical transmission of data through communications channels, such as copper wires or fiber optic cables.

File - An arbitrary block of data in a chosen format readable by one or more programs.

Fair use -

Title II - The Freedom of Internet Act

Article I. Federal or State Governments shall pass no law, nor ratify any treaty, that imposes or administers any kind of censorship upon the free internet. The internet will have network neutrality, no restrictions shall be made to block electronic communication.

Article II. Service provider or user may be held liable for any illegal content posted, shared, uploaded, or otherwise distributed on any web site or through any other internet protocol. Only the perpetraitor(s) of the illegal content may be held accountable. No web site or other internet service may be taken offline, have it's name removed from the Domain Name System, be blocked by search engines, have their bandwidth restricted, or limit public access in any way due to illegal content posted therein. The illegal content may only be removed under the procedures of Article IV.

Article III. Laws of individual countries (Who have signed this treaty) shall not be applicable to the internet. Laws regarding the internet must be agreed on by all countries whom have signed this treaty, no country shall have reigning power over the internet. Let no law be passed regarding the internet without the acknowledgement of the people.

What implications does this have on the entities that provide the internet?

The entities have no other function apart from providing access to it. Internet Service Providers may only act accordingly with the law, they shall also act under this bill thus not enforcing any content block; Internet Service Providers may not be held responsible for the actions of their client.

Article IV. A user has the right for a say in the removal of personal content. No data or files can be removed from web-pages or from cloud storage without notification of the person and/or website administrator, removing without warning would be seen as a crime. The internet is governed by the users, they have the right to control individual content (Individual content as in self-created content) on the internet.

Article V. A user(s) of the internet may only be judged in courts by nation he/she was residing under the course of internet criminal activities. Substantial amounts of evidence must be provided before accusation of a person, Internet Protocol addresses may not be used to identify an individual. Any Extradition Act's shall be ignored in the circumstances of internet related crimes, countries may only accuse and not perform any action until he/she has been heard fairly and publicly in the court of their residing country. (User(s) include: the individuals persons and companies whose registration resides.)

Article VI.

Article ?. (This is the final article) This treaty may not be interpreted as implying for any country, company, group or person any right to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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