Cyber Sovereignty & Agora

Civilized societies everywhere have become fed up.

Fed up with:

• Outrage taking center stage in political discourse

• The algorithmic amplification of extreme ideas

• Horror/pornography targeted at and accessible by children.

National governments have responded by reclaiming powers that took centuries to wrest from their control. Namely, a monopoly on values, truth and media censorship.

Their solution is to impose one set of monolithic values on all society, deciding what requires age verification, what constitutes extremism and disinformation.

Digital societies as the solution

Preserving neutrality

Liberal democracy was founded as a rebellion against government instituting a singular moral code via kings.

Cyber Sovereignty rejects a world in which national government determines what’s “hateful”, “extreme” and what should be accessible without an ID to prove one is not a child. Instead, it proposes the realm of values be delegated to digital societies which anyone can create.

Society without values

Until recently, society at large had been left a neutral space in which anything goes. In an era of social media, this has led to:

• extreme partisanship undermining dialogue

• social media comparison destroying self worth

• cancel culture replacing due process

• the most loud and outrageous claiming centerstage.

The status quo is unsustainable, yet state-mandated moral enforcement is what led to the democratic revolution.

Anytime government force is used to censor the unwilling, those that are censored have fought back to the destruction of society.

European wars of religion - 1522-1648

The English fought an entire civil war, largely driven by the enforcement of one set of values on those who didn't believe in those values.

So how can we tame the chaos that has taken centerstage? How can we take back the microphone from the most loud and outrageous?

Societies of consent

The digital societies proposed by Cyber Sovereignty are radically more accountable to their citizens, as their citizens have to voluntarily and continually choose to be subject to them. The ongoing consent of digital societies makes them a much more appropriate place for the management of values than national government.

Societies of values

Cyber Sovereignty proposes a new way, a way in which everyone create a society with the values they identify with and that we begin to rebuild our institutions and platforms there.

• New institutions imbued with freely chosen values.

• Platforms that elevate those same values.

How Synapse interacts with digital societies.

Synapse

Synapse is the technology which societies can use to create a new realm and digital institutions imbued with their values.

At its fundamental core, Synapse is the same for all digital societies, but it’s customizable to each set of values.

It’s used to create a an escape from a world where outrage is currency, it’s a place where a system of values and ideals set by the digital society are elevated in every part of it’s own virtual ecosystem and it’s institutions for those that create it and their children.

Synapse & consent

Critically, Synapse doesn't censor information, it enables societies to elevate the values and ideas that their citizens voluntarily opt into for themselves and their children. Namely, content which matches the society's values is surfaced more actively than outrage.