The Net must be open and available to all. The Net should be available to all who wish to use it, regardless of economic, social, political, linguistic, or cultural differences or abilities. Net users have the right to communicate. Every use of the Net is inherently an exercise of freedom of speech, to be restricted only at great peril to human liberty. The right to communicate includes the right to participate in communication through interacting, organising, petitioning, mobilising, assembling, collaborating, buying and selling, sharing, and publishing.
Net users have the right to privacy.
Without assurances of appropriate privacy, users of the Net will not communicate and participate in a meaningful manner. People are the Net's stewards, not its owners. Those who want to reap the benefits of the shared global Net are obliged to respect the rights of others who may wish to use the Net in different ways. We must work to preserve the free and open nature of the current Internet as a fragile resource that must be enriched and passed on to our children. Just as the ecosystem in which we live cannot be owned, the Net itself is not owned by anyone.