  Interest has been revived in the creation of a "bill of rights" for Internet
users. This paper analyzes users' rights into ten broad principles, as a basis
for assessing what users regard as important and for comparing different
multi-issue Internet policy proposals. Stability of the principles is
demonstrated in an experimental survey, which also shows that freedoms of users
to participate in the design and coding of platforms appear to be viewed as
inessential relative to other rights. An analysis of users' rights frameworks
that have emerged over the past twenty years similarly shows that such
proposals tend to leave out freedoms related to software platforms, as opposed
to user data or public networks. Evaluating policy frameworks in a comparative
analysis based on prior principles may help people to see what is missing and
what is important as the future of the Internet continues to be debated.
