Your Battle For Individual Freedom Is Up - Claim Your Rights

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May 01, 2005

Your Battle For Individual Freedom Is Up - Claim Your Rights And

Support Our Flag: The Individual-i

 

 

Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by government, by

corporations, by society itself.

 

Individual-i is a new campaign launched by Bruce Schneier, an

internationally renowed writer and speaker on personal privacy and

security issues.

 

individual-i-globe.gif

 

The campaign is centered around the symbol displayed here, a " vaguely

humanoid capital letter I " , which is intended to be an easily

recognizable symbol for the right to privacy and anonymity in the

information age. This icon — the Individual-i — represents the rights

of the individual.

 

I support individual rights

 

It represents the rights to an open government, due process, and equal

protection under the law.

 

It represents the right to live surveillance free, and not to be

marked as " suspicious " for wanting these other rights.

 

It recognizes that a free society is a safe society, and that freedom

is founded upon individual rights.

 

The battle for individual rights is just beginning and our side needs

a symbol like this badly.

 

Launching a campaign such as this, via the online world, centered

around a simple but enigmatic symbol, is a terrific idea.

 

If you believe passionately in individual rights and have a Web site,

or write your own blog, what could be simpler than pasting the image

(and a link back to www.individual-i.com) into your homepage, thereby

instantaneously demonstrating to your rs, and passing

visitors, that one of your core beliefs and principles is that of

individual liberty.

 

Bruce Schneier isn't claiming any ownership or control, hoping that

the symbol spreads organically, like a meme.

 

" The Individual-i symbol is not owned by any organization. There

is no platform, no organizational structure, no meetings.

 

This symbol is in the public domain: uncopyrighted, untrademarked,

unowned. Anyone can use it for any purpose. "

 

One way to help the meme to spread would be to use social bookmarking

tools, such as del.cio.us, Furl and Spurl, to 'tag' sites which

display the symbol. The tag " individual-i " has already been created

within bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us, Furl, Flickr and

Technorati. So now, whenever you come across a Web site or blog that

you are particularly impressed by, in terms of the quality, accuracy,

credibility, or whichever virtue you think AND you notice the

Individual-i symbol, then tag it appropriately.

 

So, if you believe passionately in:

 

* Freedom from surveillance

 

* Personal privacy

 

* Anonymity

 

* Equal protection

 

* Due process

 

* Freedom to read, write, think, speak, associate, and travel

 

* The right to make your own choices about sex, reproduction,

marriage, and death

 

* The right to dissent

 

and you own a Web site or blog, add the image. Or, if you use social

bookmarking tools when surfing the Web, remember to add the

" individual-i " tag to your bookmarked sites, as appropriate.

 

Start making waves!

 

 

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posted by Francis Good on Sunday May 1 2005