Web experimentation that consists of textual questions and answers represents free speech and freedom of the press and should not be restricted. Experimenters should have the same right to freedom of the press as any other citizen. Experimenters should be more restricted in what they can do on the web than journalists, private citizens, and those in commercial ventures. A person should not examine the source code of another's experiment to see how it works. Anything posted on the web is fair game to be copied and used.
People currently working on the web are helpful and generous.
If personal data are obtained in a study, then they should be kept secure. If data are anonymous and are not sensitive, then it is ethical for scientists to share such data. An experiment should be thoroughly tested before it is posted, to avoid wasting people's time. It would be acceptable to do pilot testing of experiments on the Internet. It would be wrong to post an experiment before the investigator knows exactly how the data will be analyzed.