Voice Equality on Public Social Media Services (United Kingdom)

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#VoiceEquality is an online campaign that has been designed to advocate for the protection of freedom of speech and equal voice rights on the Internet.

We petition for the institution of government regulation ensuring equal voice rights to individual users of public social media services provided by various companies.

Examples of such provided public social media services include but are not limited to: Google and its various services, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

We petition that should a company providing a public social media service or multiple such services allow for any opinion and/or platform on any specific issue and/or subject to be freely argued, expressed, or otherwise voiced on that social media service without fear of losing their social media account or other related repercussions be held accountable for ensuring that any and all other opinions and/or platforms on that same specific issue be equally allowed to be argued, expressed, or otherwise voiced on that social media service without fear of losing their social media account or other related repercussions as well,  thereby providing equal voice rights.

Examples include but are not limited to: The user of a public social media service is allowed to argue, express, or otherwise voice their favourite fruit for whatever reason. All other users of this site must be able to equally argue, express, or otherwise their own preferences on the subject of favourite fruits for whatever reason without fear of their account being deleted on the grounds of differing opinions.

We petition that it be recognized that individuals have the right to opinions and/or platforms on various issues and/or subjects individual to them as well as the right to argue, express, or otherwise voice them regardless as to whether they fall parallel to that of the mainstream.

We petition that voice equality regulations be recognized as a way to allow individuals access to individual freedoms that enable them to challenge, strengthen, or otherwise develop individual opinions through the ability to initiate debate and discussion without fear, respecting a beneficial learning process as well as the right to freedom of information (to ask questions).

We petition that users of such public social media services continue to have the ability to block other users they do not wish to have further contact with for whatever reason but are without the ability to have other users' accounts deleted on the grounds of differing opinions through own complaints or by means of rallying others on public social media services, especially through false claims of harassment.

We petition that voice equality regulations do not be abused by the users of public social media services who wish to harass, harm, or otherwise threaten other users sharing any public social media services.

We petition that all accounts of harassment be treated fairly and investigated thoroughly and, should such a verifiable incident of harassment occur, that any and all appropriate measures be taken in an expedient fashion.

We petition that the users of all public social media services keep the definition of harassment outlined in the "Terms of Service" be kept in mind when interacting with other users of any and all public social media service.

We petition that those chosen by companies which provide public social media services to be involved with investing and any actions following harassment claims be of a neutral stance and ensure voice equality rights to both the accuser and the accused so that favoritism based on agreeing opinions does not result in an "old boys-styled club."

We peititon that these standards are held through a series of charges and fines based on the type of offense and past offenses to ensure the guarantee of voice equality for individuals.

To find out more information about the Voice Equality campaign, other petitions, and contact options, please go to https://voiceequality.wordpress.com