Summary
The experiment is built around a central tension: people must be able to participate without being exposed, while the administration of the platform must remain visible and accountable. Both requirements serve the experiment's primary value: democracy.
Privacy for participants
Personal information and participation data should be separated, minimised, and anonymised so that public activity cannot be traced back to an individual. The platform should not expose the information needed to identify, profile, target, or dox a participant.
Privacy protects participation itself. People should be able to express views and take part in collective decisions without placing their identity or safety at unnecessary risk.
Accountability for administration
Privacy for participants must not create secrecy for those exercising administrative power. Administrative decisions should pass through a decentralised and thorough process rather than depend on one person or an unreviewable authority.
Access to sensitive information should remain limited, justified, and auditable. Administrative actions should be attributable to the process and role responsible for them without exposing participant data.
Transparency for the community
The platform should publish its rules, procedures, decisions, reasoning, and non-identifying reports in a form the community can inspect. Participants should be able to audit how authority is exercised, question decisions, identify failures, and challenge outcomes through defined processes.
Transparency applies to institutions, power, and procedures. It does not require transparency of a participant's identity or private activity.
Democracy as the purpose
Privacy, accountability, and transparency are not separate goals. They are conditions for a democratic platform in which every human being can participate with equal civic power.
The long-term objective is for participants to build the platform and its constitution collectively. No identity, position, wealth, nationality, expertise, or administrative role should grant greater democratic power than another person's. The broader direction is documented in Vision and what comes next.
The balance
Participants should be protected from exposure. Administrators should be constrained by reviewable processes. Institutions should remain open to scrutiny. Democracy determines why this balance matters and who the platform ultimately serves.