[M1ch431]

The main problem I can see with this is that international law is something that IMO is still in its infancy. International law is also something that usually isn't respected all that much by the major players of the world. And you can't trust even the first-world to make laws that are sane - that are free from malicious intent.

At least in the US, laws seem to be just made to control/monitor/limit the masses in increasingly more insidious ways. Besides basic gestures like gay marriage, I haven't personally witnessed or felt anything that impacted my life in a meaningful, positive way.

There is no universal bill of rights for humans - right to life, right to thrive, right to speech, right to be free/not a slave (such as proper work conditions) etc.

What is considered appropriate behavior is subjective, varies from person to person - from institution to institution - country to country, and too often laws often just end up being made as a reaction to maintain control. I'm not aware of many countries where I think democracy is a truly active process for everybody involved/affected and there are many countries that are hostile to some of the ideas I espouse.

And companies basically make all the standards on the web/computer. Although, thanks to players like Mozilla and OSS as a whole (and the good companies that truly embrace the OSS philosophy), there is resistance to this. Because of that, I'll hold out hope that we can figure out how to free the computer and web. IMO we are still at the drawing board phase for realizing computers/operating systems/a web that works for everybody, after all these years.

The only way any of this happens is if we 1) work on bettering diplomacy with other countries to even get to the starting point to realizing this - 2) encourage organized, civilized debate, denoted by tolerance and good faith, between many countries and individuals to determine what constitutes a minimum expected standard of living/draft a universal bill of rights for each and every citizen (this isn't the middle ages, we can do this) - 3) work on making all levels of education accessible, open, and free to every person willing to learn - imagine billions of people involved in problems and working towards solutions that work for society/their communities.

But, I will say to hell with worrying about "market costs of maintaining parts of the Internet". We need to heavily incorporate decentralization, open-source/free software, etc. into every facet of the computing ecosystem.

The average person shouldn't have to worry about backdoors - not knowing what every part of their computer is doing because of proprietary software/firmware, they should not have to be bombarded by advertisements and other attention/time-consuming dark patterns, and they shouldn't have to worry about the impersonal, but organized stalking/data collection of their every move they make using technology by those who are driven by greed, paranoia, and control.