[projectvrm] The laws of VRM

["Crosbie Fitch" < >]

The laws of VRM:

0) A VRM is an egalitarian society of virtual entities of repute, each
freely communicating and trading in a free market - a Virtual Reputational
Market.

1) A VRM and entities thereof, singly or collectively, must not, directly or
indirectly, jeopardise nor otherwise violate the natural rights of human
beings.

2) Within a VRM all entities are free. Thus no entity is able to constrain
any other entity.

3) Within a VRM all entities are equal. Thus, reputational differences
notwithstanding, there can be no reference to, nor regulation by, any
intrinsically superior entity or central authority.

4) An entity may represent or be a human being or collective, however there
is no requirement to know who or what an entity may represent or be.

5) The identity/reputation of an entity is determinable/measurable by other
entities, at least as well as it is between individuals in nature.

6) Entities should be truthful - deceit or fraud will have reputational
consequences.

7) Entities should be discreet - indiscretion will have reputational
consequences. NB
No entity has power to control what another entity may do with the
information they receive from them or deduce from transactions with them,
moreover, there can be no privacy* arising in a communications medium (a
virtual space). 

8) All trades or transactions between entities are final (caveat emptor).
Repercussions are reputational. Remedies to poor trades and/or consequential
loss of reputation are obtained through transactions that regain reputation.



* Privacy concerns the nature of real spaces physically bounded by natural
beings having physical power. Privacy does not, and cannot exist or arise
virtually. An invasion of privacy is a real, physical incursion. A violation
of privacy is a physical transgression (movement of matter or information
across the private boundary). Thus it is a violation of privacy to disclose
information obtained as a result of invasion. However, if the private
individual voluntarily discloses or releases something from their private
domain, then that something is no longer private to them - any recipient is
free to do what they will with it.
Despite many claims otherwise, privacy does not describe an individual's
imagined power to bind a confidant to secrecy or strictures of discretion.
Individuals are at liberty to betray another's confidence, or trust, and to
determine the extent to which they will be discreet or indiscreet.
Thus, a person's unauthorised disclosure, dissemination or decryption of
information communicated by an individual to that person cannot be a
violation/invasion of that individual's privacy. The same applies in the
case of virtual entities.