GeekPAC

Here’s a paper I wrote to define what I feel should be the ultimate goal of digital rights: constitutional protection of our rights to information. I put it on the bytesfree.org wiki under a Creative Commons license so that others may edit it. The long and short of it is this: Access to information is a basic human right and should be explicitly defined as such. Exchanging information in a proprietary format; forcing me to use a specific tool to access content; denying me the ability to create my own tool to access content; or any other means of erecting artificial barriers to information is a violation of my rights. We must put these rights into law.