At 25, does the Web need a bill of rights?

A quarter-century ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal to his colleagues at CERN that outlined his vision for what would become the World Wide Web. Now, he wants to make sure that it's growing up the right way. He's taken his call for an online Magna Carta to the people, working with the "Web We Want" campaign to encourage people around the world to draft and submit copies of an online bill of rights for each country: “The Web We Want Campaign will build support for national and regional campaigns to create a world where everyone, everywhere is online and able to participate in a free flow of knowledge, ideas, collaboration and creativity over the open Web.

We’ve come together in support of the following principles:

• Affordable access to a universally available communications platform
• The protection of personal user information and the right to communicate in private
• Freedom of expression online and offline
• Diverse, decentralized and open infrastructure
• Neutral networks that don’t discriminate against content or users”