Re: [GNU/consensus] [RFC][SH] User Data Manifesto

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Good point.  That sentence wasnt as clear as it could be.  What I had in
  > mind was "user generated content".

Do you mean, publications posted on web sites by members of the
public?  I think so.

Please let's not call these publications "content"; that term
disparages them.  See http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.

  > So as we transition I think it's
  > valuable to consider both data you store personally, and data you trust
  > others to store for you.

Now it seems you are talking about files we keep and do NOT publish.

  > > We should test these proposals against some specific cases to see if
  > > what they would require would be sufficient for those cases.
  > >

  > Absolutely!  One thing I'd like to see is more interop among free software
  > solutions.

I think we are miscommunicating.  We are not talking about specific
programs.  We are discussing proposed ethical criteria.  What I suggest
we do is test these proposed criteria against specific cases and see
whether their requirements would be ethically adequate for those cases.

I can say this much: the proper requirements for something that stores
your private files are totally different from those appropriate for
publications.  A proposal to treat both of those with one set of
criteria is misguided.

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