A growing number of scholars and policymakers are calling attention to the relationship between technology standards, protocols, human rights, ethics, and values—also claiming that human rights can be secured (or violated) via the Internet's standards and architecture. However, this assertion of governance through Internet architecture can oversimplify the complex relationship between technology and society. This article argues that human rights are primarily a political and institutional accomplishment, not a simple matter of technical design. By articulating a challenge to uncritical and imperfectly theorized efforts to link standards‐setting and protocol development to “values” and human rights objectives, we hope to foster a more realistic approach to Internet standardization and governance processes and a more balanced and well‐informed theoretical debate. Situated in the theoretical literature on science, technology, and society, our analysis is also informed by extensive empirical exposure to standardization and Internet governance processes. It includes two short case studies in which standards development and rights issues have intersected in ways that illuminate the relationship between rights and standards, and which can be interpreted to falsify certain claims.

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为梦想而安魂曲：通过互联网架构促进人权

越来越多的学者和政策制定者呼吁关注技术标准，协议，人权，道德和价值观之间的关系，并声称可以通过互联网的标准和体系结构来保护（或侵犯）人权。但是，这种通过Internet体系结构进行治理的主张可以简化技术与社会之间的复杂关系。本文认为，人权主要是政治和制度成就，而不是简单的技术设计问题。通过表达对将标准制定和协议制定与“价值”和人权目标联系起来的不严格和理论上不完善的努力的挑战，我们希望为Internet标准化和治理流程提供一种更现实的方法，以及进行更加平衡和消息灵通的理论辩论。位于关于科学，技术和社会的理论文献中，我们的分析还基于对标准化和Internet治理流程的广泛经验披露。它包括两个简短的案例研究，在这些案例研究中，标准制定和权利问题以阐明权利与标准之间关系的方式相交，并且可以解释为伪造某些权利要求。