User:RobLa/BResp/Rule A
This is the 2020-03-04 draft of "Rule A" of the "Bill of Responsibilites" for users of this site. See User:RobLa/Bill of Responsibilities for the full list.
Please don't let banner blindness prevent you from reading the note immediately below:
 | Definition of "forum" - This page will be broken up into many sections. Some of them are specific to the wiki this document is hosted on. Others will be for mailing lists, forums, etc. |
Rule A - With freedom of speech comes the responsibility to use it wisely.
This rule is intended to be a counterpart to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Particularly the "freedom of speech" part.
Comparison to the US First Amendment
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There's a lot mixed up in that. Some things that people often cite out as core principles of the U.S. Constitution derived from the First Amendment:
- Freedom of speech
- Separation of church and state (broken up into "separationists" and "accomodationists")
- Free exercise of religion
- Freedom of the press
- Freedom of anonymous speech
- Freedom to speak truth to power
Each of these may need to have separate rules. For purposes of this set of rules, "Rule A" will focus on "freedom of speech".
| As of 06:29, 14 April 2020 (UTC), "Rule A" will focus on "freedom of speech". TODO: remove this note before finalizing. |
Specific rules per site/forum
This section is site-specific prose for each of the given sites/forums:
Electowiki
(put Electowiki stuff here)