The natural flow
"Chesterton's Fence" is a thought principle that argues one should never remove an existing rule or institution without first understanding why it was established. The reason for it might be crucial, even if not immediately obvious.
The reason many political ideologies fail is because they try to uproot many fences without recognizing why they were built in the first place.
By contrast, Cyber Sovereignty looks at the natural flow of things, where friction is being created and alleviates the natural friction leading to an increase in freedom, prosperity and trade.
It's careful to gently touch current legal systems and create a natural flow that will only replace parts of legal systems if proven to be successful beforehand. As more and more friction is brought about by the current legal system, which was meant for physical life but cannot by its very nature apply to digital life, the water on the far side of the dam increases and the desire for change with it.
Sovereignty is changing
The internet has disrupted the legal foundation of our society by making it so that people can cooperate from a myriad of different jurisdictions. In our current system, all of these jurisdictions claim rights over everything affected by the people within their jurisdiction.
This means to operate legally, a creator, for example, has to understand the laws of every jurisdiction from which people can come to interact with their creation.
The current system means that to operate fully legally one would have to spend 99% of their time just studying legal matters.
In reality, no one does operates like this, and everyone breaks the law, wittingly or unwittingly, when they operate online. However, the effect of their breaking the law is increasing, further galvanizing states to create more laws that are applied more rigorously.
All this adds to water on the far side of the dam.
Immersive reality
As augmented reality brings a real sense of presence to digital worlds, people will begin to connect online in a way that they attempted to during the pandemic but were not really capable of doing.
As life itself becomes more digital, the demand for freedom from laws which essentially make commerce impossible online will grow. At the same time the need for real social organization will pressure governments to govern the internet, something they are incapable of doing due to the massive pace of change.
These frictions will naturally create demand for change that Cyber Sovereignty as a concept is prepared to provide a solution for.
Avoiding the obvious
The natural outlet of these desires is to create a global digital government, a catastrophic mistake people everywhere will regret. Cyber Sovereignty was created in part to prevent the wrong solution to the problem and to ensure that the water on the far side of the dam bursts out in such a way that it leads to more prosperity and freedom.
Constructive, not destructive
Throughout history, radical revolutionaries have forcefully torn down old systems without the thought and care necessary to replace them with the nuance required for new systems.
Cyber Sovereignty by contrast, seeks to create a natural flow from one system to another system as a progressive transition.
As digital societies grow in popularity, their laws will begin to impact more and more people, leading to this natural flow.
Overall Cyber Sovereignty is an advocate of step-by-step transition from on system to another system proven to be working by it's growth.
If digital societies fail to grow, the concept does not destroy society, rather, eventually, digital societies will evolve to the point where they can provide a superior service to physical governments, and only then will they take precedence.