The unanimous Declaration of the Global Users of the Internet:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for users to dissolve the public identifiers which have connected them with to Web sites and services and to assume the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Internet users are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are privacy, control, and the free pursuit of their interests online.

— That to secure these rights, technologies are made available, deriving their just powers from the consent of the users,
— That whenever any Form of  Web Technology becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new technology, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety, Privacy and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Technologies long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that users are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to fight back by abolishing the forms of technology to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Tracking and Control, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Technology, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

— Such has been the patient sufferance of Web users; and such….

- Web companies may not force us to supply our real government-issued credentials if we object to this and their policies of use
- Our confidential data: names, numbers, and passwords are ours and ours alone to control, today, and in the future
- As more of our lives move online, our lives need not be tracked unnecessarily and without our explicit permission.   And if should permission be granted, we may revoke it with respect to our personal identifying information at any time, with any entity, for whatever reason we may choose.

That these united users are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent, that they are Absolved from all obligations impinging on their Rights; and that as Free and Independent users, they have full Power to remain private, to choose not disclose their real information, and to choose to do all other Acts and Things which Independent users may of right do.

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