A Realist’s Internet Bill of Rights

I did a lot of lurking on Twitter recently while a fervent subset of users were trying to drum up 100,000 signatures for a White House petition asking action to be taken towards the creation of an Internet Bill of Rights (see also: #ibor). The petition only achieved about a third of the total signatures during the allotted time period, which the more conspiratorially-minded believed was the result of some plot by Twitter, perhaps in conjunction with the “Deep State.”

I’m not here to pass judgement on those theories, but the overall topic has proven to be, for me, one…