Under the "Technologists... Please" header in this post, I implored the makers of technology to think about the societal ramifications of the things they create. Turns out, there is a whole software license dedicated to that notion!

The only problem with it is that its ethics are based on this document, which is filled with insoluble contradictions: it tries to shoe-horn together United States "Bill of Rights"-esque liberalism-- negative rights-- with "Communist Manifesto" positive rights.

Saying that "no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property" and "no one may be compelled to belong to an association" in one breath, followed in the next breath by "elementary education shall be compulsory", "everyone has the right to a standard of living" including "medical care" plus "social services", and also that people have a right to "protection against unemployment", is a lesson in hilarity. It's the "Pontiac Aztec" of charters!

Good luck trying to legally resolve this contract in a dispute!

Welfare states are authoritarian by nature: they require slaves-in-all-but-name against their will to service other people's needs, according to terms that a pseudo-arbitary middleman enforces at gunpoint. By contrast, a liberal society is one based on negative rights, which precludes "welfare" and even taxation, unless the taxation services only delegation of natural rights-- and even then it's a gray area.

You can't mix the two models: you have to pick one.

There are some articles I do like however, such as: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." The Left won't touch this charter with a ten foot barge pole due to this clause!