A space of values

Under Cyber Sovereignty, much of national government would continue as normal:

1. People would vote for national presidents and representatives

2. Government would continue to manage defense

3. Government would control boarders

However, the role of national governments would be progressively rolled back in these sectors:

1. morals/ethics

2. values/religion

3. speech/expression

4. internet access restrictions

5. personal disputes

6. personal health choices

7. welfare

8. services.

Digital societies would handle disputes in society according to the treaties and Accords they have with one another. This would happen over time as more people join digital societies.

National government & values

National governments are ill-suited to handle matters of personal values because:

1. Consent: No one has a real choice in living under their national government.

2. Monolithic: The government’s solutions are by nature imposed on everyone, often making 50% of people unhappy.

3. Non-empirical: There's no way to know for sure what you get when you vote, since politicians aren't held to their promises.

Digital societies & values

Today's chaos

Today's digital landscape is defined by the fact that there is truly no overarching set of values.

1. Horror and pornography are easily accessible by children

2. Outrage has taken center stage

3. AI generated lies spread faster than well-researched truths.

When an equal microphone is granted to all, inevitably the worst of the worst takes over.

A disastrous alternative

The touted solution, top-down government control of social media, will only accelerate the creation of a tracked, controlled, dystopian future for all humanity driven by AI censors.

Problem	Today's solution	Why it fails
Horror and pornography are easily accessible by children	ID verification on social media to prove users aren't minors.	De-anonymizes all posts, and therefore chills free speech and protests.
Spread of CSAM. (Child P).	Requires scanning of all photos on all phones.	Client-side scanning allows eavesdropping on end-to-end encryption.
Proliferation of extremist and illegal content.	The government imposes its own tailored view of extremism on social media.	Penalizes “harmful” content, including protests.
Misinformation spreads faster than truth.	Government imposes its own view of the truth on social media.	Companies pressure government to remove content deemed harmful to the company.

When government decides:

1. what’s ethical, they will use force to impose those values on the non-consenting

2. what inoffensive behavior is, people are no longer free

3. what’s true, it will inevitably censor those who stand against it.

Cyber Sovereignty is not against solutions to the crisis. What it opposes is unconsented national government control. It resists the creation of a totalitarian system that imposes one set of values on everyone by force, with no opt-out.

Digital societies as a filter

Digital societies, actively consented to by their citizens, can provide an escape from this chaos into a filtered ecosystem that promotes the values people explicitly agree on.

People can choose to bring themselves and their children to a digital society where content is filtered, where there is a middleman, where there is some sort of order to the chaos.

But that system must be subject to a citizenry not imposed on, but actively consenting to it.

The current chaos cannot stand. Digital societies actively consented to by their citizens can provide a reasonable alternative to a world in which most 9-year-olds are being bombarded with horror, violence, rage-bait, addictive algorithms and pornography.