I said the three virtues were: end-to-end, anybody-to-anybody; freedom from tampering and from censorship; and freedom to invent new uses. These all pertain to things that we voluntarily put on the Internet. The Internet is a way to talk to each other.

It is not, however, a way for people to coerce, to force other people to talk. It’s not an interrogation tool. So just as it is a bad thing to prevent somebody access to the Internet, so it is also wrong to force somebody to reveal something private, that they don’t want other people to know on the Internet.

The Internet guarantees the message’s integrity, but the integrity of each person is a moral choice that is outside the domain of neutrality of Internet as a medium.

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