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Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
On The 15th Anniversary of the Print Edition
ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9, 361 pages, May 1997, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press

                            Netizens: An Anthology
                                Michael Hauben
                                    Table of Contents
Foreword: By Tom Truscott
Preface: What is a Netizen?
Introduction: Participatory Networks
Part I - The Present: What Has Been Created and How?
Chapter 1 - The Net and the Netizens: The Impact the Net has on People's Lives
Chapter 2 - The Evolution of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET
Chapter 3 - The Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet
Chapter 4 - The World of Usenet
Part II - The Past: Where Has It All Come From?
Chapter 5 - The Vision of Interactive Computing and the Future
Chapter 6 - Cybernetics, Time-sharing, Human-Computer Symbiosis and
On-line Communities: Creating a Super-community of On-line Communities
Chapter 7 - Behind the Net: Computer Science and the Untold Story of the ARPANET
Chapter 8 - The Birth and Development of the ARPANET
Chapter 9 - On the Early History and Impact of UNIX: Tools to Build
the Tools for a New Millennium
Chapter 10 - On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative
Online Culture
Part III - And the Future?
Chapter 11 - The NTIA Conference on the Future of the Net Creating a
Prototype for a Democratic Decision Making Process
Chapter 12 - "Imminent Death of the Net Predicted!"
Chapter 13 - The Effect of the Net on the Professional News Media: The
Usenet News Collective and Man-Computer News Symbiosis
Chapter 14 - The Net and the Future of Politics: The Ascendancy of the Commons
Chapter 15 - Exploring New York City's On-Line Community: A Snapshot
of NYC.General
Part IV - Contributions Toward Developing a Theoretical Framework
Chapter 16 - The Expanding Commonwealth of Learning: Printing and the Net
Chapter 17 - `Arte': An Economic Perspective
Chapter 18 - The Computer as Democratizer
Bibliography
Glossary of Acronyms
Appendix
Proposed draft Declaration of the Rights of Netizens


                                            Appendix
                    Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Netizens
         We Netizens have begun to put together a Declaration of the
Rights of Netizens and are
requesting from other Netizens contributions, ideas, and suggestions
of what rights should be
included. Following are some beginning ideas.
The Declaration of the Rights of Netizens:
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         In recognition that the net represents a revolution in human
communications that was built
by a cooperative non-commercial process, the following Declaration of
the Rights of the Netizen is
presented for Netizen comment.
         As Netizens are those who take responsibility and care for
the Net, the following are
proposed to be their rights:
o Universal access at no or low cost
o Freedom of Electronic Expression to promote the exchange of
knowledge without fear of reprisal
o Uncensored Expression
o Access to Broad Distribution
o Universal and Equal access to knowledge and information
o Consideration of one's ideas on their merits
o No limitation to access to read, to post and to otherwise contribute
o Equal quality of connection
o Equal time of connection
o No Official Spokesperson
o Uphold the public grassroots purpose and participation
o Volunteer Contribution - no personal profit from the contribution
freely given by others
o Protection of the public purpose from those who would use it for
their private and money making
purposes
         The Net is not a Service, it is a Right. It is only valuable
when it is collective and universal.
Volunteer effort protects the intellectual and technological
common-wealth that is being created.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE NET and NETIZENS.
         Inspiration from: RFC 3 (1969), Thomas Paine, Declaration of
Independence (1776),
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), NSF
Acceptable Use Policy, Jean
Jacques Rousseau, and the current cry for democracy worldwide.