Cyber Sovereignty & innovation in organization

Nation-states are demanding sovereignty over the internet by passing laws that apply to users everywhere, inside and outside their borders.

These regulations together create such a regulatory burden that it entrenches a class of techno-feudalists at the cost of freedom and prosperity. 

Put simply, because every nation wants the maximum application of their laws  the only actors that can grow on the internet are those willing to break the law and those who can afford expensive international lawyers. 

This entrenches old money and established players at the cost of groundbreaking innovation and disruption leading to a classist society.

Simple cooperation 

In the case of labor law, a team of 16 people working together online could have 16 different legal jurisdictions that they should be familiar with to cooperate on a task. Many of these have bodies of case law that need to be studied in each individual jurisdiction to understand how each law within that jurisdiction would be interpreted within that jurisdiction. Namely, laws in certain nations could overrule laws in other nations based not on an easy reading of the text of the law but on how past cases in that nation were handled. 

In the case of these 16 people working together, any 15 can quite easily be dragged into a 6-figure lawsuit over insignificant collaboration on a project online costing them their entire livelihood even if no money was exchanged between members. 

By every possible jurisdiction demanding sovereignty over those people online, a system is created in which no one can prosper. 

However, this is only one element of an entire system of law written hundreds of years ago, based on a reality that simply doesn't exist today. 

The biggest hindrance to the economic development of a digital world is the archaic nature of many systems of law. 

Freedom of action

Cyber-sovereigntists believe that the literal interpretation of modern-day laws which govern the relationships between people, when imposed on the internet constitute excessive interference with a person's natural born freedom of action. 

Laws of precedence

Cyber-sovereigntists stand for a world in which people cannot be subject to laws they did not consent to.

Instead, we believe people around the world should be allowed to cooperate under rules they themselves determine, unlocking massive prosperity through digital cooperation.