Our political legacy

Our founding fathers recognized two fundamental principles of the anarchist tradition

• The right to individual self-rule under natural law.
• The right to free association. One is a member of a group only if they choose to be and they can leave at any time.

They recognized these rights at a time in history when most people believed that authority to rule was a divine right of kings. Genius.

In order to form a more perfect union our founding fathers came up with the idea that we could vest our individual power to rule into a constitutional republic as described in the Declaration of Independence.

We still retain our individual right to self-rule. Our democracy holds it in trust and exercises that authority on our behalf.

I call this underlying philosophy American Anarchism. American Anarchists produce American Democracy.

This outcome is unthinkable and all derivative timelines are chaos.

Our interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan as codified in the US Constitution. This document is the blueprint we used to create an instance of our US government.

This is my personal commitment and I have no expectation that others do the same. Everyone has the freedom to make their own choices and it is not my place to say otherwise nor will I judge others on that choice.

This is what truly makes American Democracy strong in my opinion. A diverse nation of individuals working together as individuals to grow a healthy and prosperous nation.

I make the following declarations and assert these rights under the constitution. These fundamental rights are the basis by which individuals claim authority in our democracy.

The following claims should be self-evident as they follow directly from natural law. This is not diminished by the fact that this technology was invented almost 300 years after the Constitution was written.

I define my identity as the set of information needed to create an instance of me.

• Virtual Identity: The set of information needed to perfectly create an instance of me. An imaginary blueprint of me.
• Identity: Same as Virtual Identity

My identity belongs to me. No one else has permission to any of this data without my authorization. Institutions and organizations treat my data as if it belongs to them. No longer will I allow these companies to profit from my identity without compensation.

I define my personal identity as an instance of me. It could be me in the flesh, or it could be a row of data in a database. There is no requirement that the instance be perfect, only that it identifies me.

• Personal Identity: An instance of me. This can actually be me in the flesh, or it could be a row of data in a social media platform database, or something else that uniquely identifies me.
• Platform Identity: A personal identity on a specific platform.
• Personal Data: Information that uniquely identifies me.

A virtual identity just is. A personal identity requires a physical presence. For my physical body this is somewhere within objective spacetime. To create other personal identities I need a hosting platform.

I can create an instance of my identity on any platform, or a service could create it on my behalf. My identity persists and survives the death of any platform. My personal identity is my sole personal property regardless of platform.

It would be appropriate and expected for a platform to charge for the use of their services. This however does not grant any real or implied rights to my data. These rights must be granted by me personally.

• Hosting Platform: A place where one could create an instance of an identity.
• Platform: Same as Hosting Platform.

One could argue that a platform has partial ownership due to its role in instantiation. This would be like ludicrously arguing that a driver is partially owned when a person operates a rental vehicle thus creating an instance of a driver because you cannot create a driver without a car thus making it part owner.

In addition, I assert ownership of the things I create for myself by rights granted to me under common law.

Organizations have treated my personal property and my identity as their personal property for too long. I firmly believe that the public has a superior claim to their own personal information and creative works on a platform than does the owner of that platform.

Disputes over such claims should start with a null hypothesis that the individual creator of an identity or a personal work is the owner and that the burden of proof is upon the challenging entity.

We have the technology today to protect and enforce this.

I would like you to consider the concept of a person under the constitution. We tend to think of it like us the human in a physical sense. I want to instead consider person in a virtual sense. An intelligence is identified by a Virtual Identity. An Identity can represent a human or artificial intelligence, but a person can only be a manifestation of a human intelligence.

This breaks corporate personhood, but corporate personhood is a kludge implemented to end-run around the immutable fact that organizations can never have the same rights under natural law as a human being because it's simply absurd. It's important to recognize the specific rights of humans in an age where many of our daily interactions will be with non-human entities.

We need an identity system. It's critical that we maintain our own individual agency in an increasingly digital world of bad actors. This system will give us the accountability and transparency that we need to be effective players in this space.