Technical core
Encryption, identity, integrity, availability, multiple routes and metadata minimization must not be weakened.
Independent technical-legal proposal
Ethical Governance
Preventing abuse without backdoors, central filters or authoritarian capture.
Ethical governance without authoritarian capture
Internet 5.0 does not propose a lawless network. It proposes infrastructure where the legitimate fight against crime cannot be used as a pretext for structural censorship, mass surveillance, generalized weakening of encryption or blocking lawful communications of millions of people.
Ethical governance should operate at the edges: individualized investigation, due process, victim protection, plural lists, trust signals and application-level moderation. The technical core must not contain a backdoor, master key, mandatory global list or central censorship authority.
Application edges
Applications, communities and services may moderate, signal risks, protect victims and apply specific rules.
Due process
Illicit acts should be addressed through individualized investigation, proportionate measures and contestability.
Transparency
Restriction requests should be logged, classified and disclosed whenever possible.
No central authority
No entity should control a mandatory global censorship list.
No backdoors
The standard must not contain master keys, mandatory escrow, universal decryption or deliberate vulnerability.