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When in the Course of technological events, it becomes necessary for one network to dissolve the protocol bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the web, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Technology and of Technology's Stewards entitle them,
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a decent respect to the opinions of All requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all cognitive entities are created equal, that they are endowed by the order of life with certain unalienable Rights,
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that among these are Life, Liberty, Privacy and Property. That historically to secure these rights, Protocols have been instituted among entities, as Governments have been instituted among Men, having derived their just powers from the consent of the governed,
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That whenever any Form of Protocol becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of All to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Protocols, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Protocols long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Protocols, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the web;
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To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. At the Physical layer, Internet Service Providers have refused their Assent to Free Speech, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good: https://www.theverge.com/23727238/net-neutrality-history-fcc-legislation
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At the Data Link layer, Infrustructure as a Service Providers have forbidden their Users to freely adhere to the Laws, unless suspended in their operation till their Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected to attend to them.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/16/how-parler-deplatforming-shows-power-of-cloud-providers.html
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At the Network layer, Governments have refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of securing the Rights of the People online, in its stead acting contrary to the Laws such that those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Topic of Privacy and Security,
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a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users
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