So the 'votes' here have nothing to do with the spirit of the Magna Carta so I'm not certain why the BBC linked them.<p>The Magna Carta was a concession made by the king of England (he had to make them, or he would have been killed) to limit his power and to accept that the person holding the throne was not above the law.<p>This vote had more to do with regulation of the internet by state mandate and enforcement. Pretty divergent.<p>It's disappointing to hear that the report is on more youth voting for safety over freedom online. The original mythical promise of the internet was a sort of freedom that of course never came to pass - where free speech could not be censored, where information was traded without cost and where propaganda would not and could not lurk.<p>The past three decades, especially the most recent one, have proven this wrong.<p>A managed, regulated and enforced internet is an interesting idea - on that protect people from dangerous ideas and information - but it's also a scary and an alien one; it's an idea that Western governments have consistently criticized other countries for doing.<p>I myself think that law enforcement is here to protect civil liberties, and that civil liberties are only to be given up in times of great struggle and only upon the highest of imperatives.<p>I know that the West is being significantly challenged to keep its place in the world, but I don't know that this shift in the winds is one of those great imperatives.
I'm not sure that the general public could end up with something as
eloquent and succinctly expressed as John Perry Barlow's A Declaration
of the Independence of Cyberspace[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html" rel="nofollow">https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html</a>
Subjectively most British adults are frighteningly passive to surveillance and seem oblivious to losing privacy rights, I would not want British people to create the Magna Carta of the internet!<p>Disclaimer, I am British.