The democratization of the internet naturally parallels the democratization of real-world societies.

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 09:45:34 PDT 2022


On 10/21/22, professor rat <pro2rat at yahoo.com.au> puffed:
> https://twitter.com/ahall_research/status/1583474602046476289?cxt=HHwWgsCq3dnw0PkrAAAA

Stop including tracking tags in links.
Links die, post the article.

Quit shilling 'governance' you wannabe 'anarchist'.
This scam of 'Democracy' for and by the Internet will 'Democratize'
and techno lock the mass of 8B plugged-in-matrix-brains out of
freedom forever, and due to total digital tie-in will squash you out
of any remaining freedom in the real world along with it.
Exactly as that ideology and psychological indoctrination
program has been doing to actual freedom in the real world
since say at least 1984.

> Reposts so secret I now have to kill you

Grow up.




Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
Why is it valuable to decentralize major online platforms for social
media, e-commerce, and other purposes? And how can you govern these
platforms of the future? @_portersmith and I sketch some ideas in our
new piece for @a16zcrypto... a16zcrypto.com/toppling-the-…
Toppling the Internet’s Accidental Monarchs: How to Design web3
Platform Governance

web3 platforms have the opportunity to correct the problems of current
platforms - but only by giving up some power.
a16zcrypto.com

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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
We start by explaining how the democratization of the internet
naturally parallels the democratization of real-world societies.
Protecting property rights and giving more governance power to
stakeholders creates trust and legitimacy—potentially fueling future
growth.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
Then we lay out a vision for how a community could democratically
govern a platform, in three main parts.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
First, rules are encoded at the protocol layer—like a constitution.
Here the basic structure of the service and the core commitments are
created.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
Second, clients built on top of the protocol can experiment with
different ways to make policies, to enforce policies, and to
adjudicate disputes over enforcement decisions, using a fast-growing
toolkit for community governance.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
For making policies and other collective decisions, this could include
token-based voting and delegation, legislatures that empower key
stakeholders, and citizens’ assemblies of randomly recruited community
members.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
For enforcement, this could include user-based reporting, reputation
systems, and legislative oversight of AI-based enforcement systems.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
For adjudication, this could include juries of peers that hear appeals
of enforcement decisions, or panels of community-chosen experts who
issue judgments on particularly hard cases that set precedent for
future decisions and inform policy changes.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
Community governance at the protocol level may be needed to define the
core mission of the platform, to allocate resources, and to address
negative externalities induced between clients. The protocol could
avail itself of any of the community governance tools we’ve just laid
out.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
Smart and parsimonious protocol and client community governance can
create trust between platforms, their users, and their
contributors—hopefully leading to more legitimacy and more growth.
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Andy Hall @ahall_research
Oct 21
Huge thanks to @Tim_Org for his partnership on this piece. Excited for
feedback and ideas on the next phase of platform governance!
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