# Declaration of Internet Freedom

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The '''Declaration of Internet Freedom''' is a 2012 online declaration in defence of [online](/source/online) [freedoms](/source/%3Awikt%3Afreedom) signed by a number of prominent organisations and individuals.<ref>{{cite news |title=Group calls for Internet freedom |author=Éanna Ó Caollaí |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0702/breaking55.html |newspaper=[The Irish Times](/source/The_Irish_Times) |date=2 July 2012 |accessdate=2 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Defining the 'We' in the Declaration of Internet Freedom |author=Nancy Scola |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/defining-the-we-in-the-declaration-of-internet-freedom/259485/ |newspaper=[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)|date=9 July 2012 |accessdate=10 August 2012}}</ref> Notable signatories include [Amnesty International](/source/Amnesty_International), the [Electronic Frontier Foundation](/source/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation), [Reporters Without Borders](/source/Reporters_Without_Borders), and the [Mozilla Foundation](/source/Mozilla_Foundation), among others.

The declaration supports the establishment of five basic principles for [Internet](/source/Internet) [policy](/source/policy):

* Non-[censorship of the Internet](/source/Internet_censorship)
* [Universal access](/source/Universal_access) to [fast](/source/Broadband) and affordable networks
* Freedom to connect, communicate, create and innovate over the Internet.
* Protection for new technologies and innovators whose innovations are abused by users.
* [Privacy rights](/source/Privacy_law) and the ability for Internet users to control information about them is used.

The declaration started to be translated through a collaborative effort started by [Global Voices](/source/Global_Voices_(NGO)) in August 2012<ref>{{cite news |title=Global: A Marathon to Translate the Declaration of Internet Freedom |author=Paula Goes |url=http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/07/26/translation-declaration-internet-freedom/ |work=[Global Voices](/source/Global_Voices_(NGO)) |date=26 July 2012 |accessdate=10 August 2012}}</ref> and at the end of the first week of August, it had been made available into 70 languages, almost half of which were provided by [Project Lingua](/source/Project_Lingua) volunteer translators.
In 2018, the website began to be reduced and by 2020 was seemingly erased and is no longer accessible (see data on archive.org).

==References==
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==External links==
* {{webarchive|date=11 Feb 2018|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211125855/https://www.internetdeclaration.org/|title=Official website}}

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