Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy
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Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy
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Re: Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy
#2I'm so glad somebody works in this direction.
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#3Ok, it looks nice, but... can someone explain what it does for me in a couple of lines?
IMHO they need a marketing guy.
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#4Ok, it looks nice, but... can someone explain what it does for me in a couple of lines? IMHO they need a marketing guy.
Yeah I was trying to figure out the same thing. Their main page http://democracy.earth/ is a bit better.
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#5Off deep end:
>> I declare the planetary social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
>> Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Funny, right after disclaiming the concept of property they remember to protect their project with an MIT license ... a concept baked in western IP traditions.
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#6Off deep end: >> I declare the planetary social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. >> Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. Funny, rig…
MIT is pretty much giving the project away. What are you talking about?
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#7Off deep end: >> I declare the planetary social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. >> Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. Funny, rig…
> Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
Unfortunately, our/their bodies are made of matter, and are subject to laws and government enforcement. That kind of ruins much of the logic of the manifesto.
> We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
That seems somewhat overstated compared to the reality, in light of recent events (great firewalls, DDOS attacks, and online attacks based on viewpoint).
> We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
Yeah... that "rule over our bodies" turns out to actually affect cyberspace.
To be fair, the manifesto was written in 1996.
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#9Off deep end: >> I declare the planetary social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. >> Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. Funny, rig…
MIT is pretty much giving the project away. What are you talking about?
If they truly believed, then they wouldn't bother with a license. Someone who truly doesn't care about copyright wouldn't consider they need a license. The irony would be even more should someone break this license and these believers take them to court. I'm reminded of when the Church of Scientology hadn't bothered with registering the copyrights for many texts, only to rush to court once they leaked. They lost, mostly because they were true believers unable to admit the texts were not divinely inspired.
MIT does have stipulations:
"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
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#10Is there a reason that almost every blog post/platform/organization I've seen that involves some sort of block chain tech invariably starts spouting hyperbolic, overblown rhetoric about overthrowing the social order? Block chains are a really promising technology, but these types of manifestos really hurt the community's credibility.