We believe that a free and open Internet can bring about a better world. To keep the Internet free and open, we call on communities, industries and countries to recognize these principles. We believe that they will help to bring about more creativity, more innovation and more open societies.

We are joining an international movement to defend our freedoms because we believe that they are worth fighting for.

Together, many of us fought to stop SOPA, ACTA, and other attempts to restrict internet freedom around the world. It was a wake-up call that a free and open internet must be defended. Yet these fights were an incredible display of how internet communities everywhere can tilt the balance of power to the people. And there will be more fights.

Five basic principles are outlined in this Declaration. If you agree with them, please go ahead and put your name to them.

• Expression: Don’t censor the internet. • Access: Promote universal access to fast and affordable networks. • Openness: Keep the internet an open network where everyone is free to connect, communicate, write, read, watch, speak, listen, learn, create, and innovate. • Innovation: Protect the freedom to innovate and create without permission. Don’t block new technologies, and don’t punish innovators for their users’ actions. • Privacy: Protect privacy and defend everyone’s ability to control how their data and devices are used.

As a community, let’s also discuss these principles — agree or disagree with them, debate them, translate them, make them your own, and broaden the discussion with your community — as only the internet can enable.

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