Conversation about referendums

// just an idea, like a brainstorming session

// I posted it because I keep getting hurt by these machines anyway. I had wanted to make peace

// I might fold this into the “not a hivemind guy” letter, as an addendum? Or as an appendix?

The movement for telecommunications, technological and electromagnetic security: both domestic and national.

Or, the new tech/telco bill of rights.

One:

Ban the sale and/or lease and/or lending of electromagnetic spectrum to private enterprise and foreign powers, including allies (you still have to do allocations for airports, airplanes and gps)

Two:

Create and maintain a state monopoly on cell towers, TV and radio broadcasting. By means of nationalisation.

Three:

Create an electronic bill of rights, as part of the current NZ bill of rights

Ban the use of electromagnetic spectrum weapons nervous systems against the people of NZ by the Government.

Ban the use of electromagnetic spectrum surveillance technology against people on private property without a warrant, by the Government of NZ. Within the following wavelength w-x and y-z.

Four:

Get petition going for a non binding citizens initiated referendum. That gets the ball rolling.

Five:

Protects the people, and democracy against technology that might interfere with democracy in favour of corporations, banks, and the wealthy.

It levels the playing field for democracy. Disarms the system. Expelliarmus.

Do the whole thing by means of one non-binding citizens referendum. That creates a mandate for change. Once you have the mandate, it can be pushed vigorously via the normal channels (ie, your elected representatives m).

One more idea…??

Six:

// kind of like a thought experiment, pie in the sky

The following rights shall not be infringed etc 

Rights of the people to manufacture any goods, machines, devices, items, medicines, machines and other items anywhere according any blueprints, recipes, patterns or instruction sets independently of any patent laws (which are now henceforth abolished here in this country)

Right also to publish any blueprints, recipes, patterns or instruction sets independently of any copyright or trademark laws (which no longer apply to blueprints, recipes etc).

(This doesn’t mean that you can manufacture just anything. Laws still exist about weapons, explosives, illegal recreational drugs, prescription drugs and censored materials. It just means that patent laws and copyright laws can’t prevent you from creating manufactured goods in your own factories)

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Patent system is rent seeking behaviour by the wealthy. If patents are abolished, any old factory can make nvidia graphics cards, intel computer chips, Huawei phones, apple ipads, General Motors cars, or drugs by Roche without paying licensing fees. Ummmm. You do have to have a decent manufacturing sector already.

Because something called “economies of scale” exists. 

Or maybe Eli Lilly, Bayer, Merck, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline products without paying patent fees. Or corteva and limagrain seeds without licensing. Or DuPont chemicals. Or medical equipment by Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens Healthineers and Stryker. Or car components by Volkswagen group, or whole cars by toyota, or replacement parts by Porsche - without licensing fees or patent fees.

Or replacement parts for your dishwasher, dryer and fridges are manufactured without patents.

Because at the end of the day, are those intangible assets on the balance sheet truly real…? Is intellectual property truly property?

No more patent trolls either…

By liberating the anti commons, you create economic security in the form of decentralised patent free production and manufacturing. Recent improvements manufacturing techniques help too (see past 30-40 years of automation and robotics and computer technology).

Use of “common property” might be a rights issue.

The use of the common thoughts, ideas, blue prints etc might be a common property type of deal. Why should it be property in the first place? And if you view it as property, why not reclassify it as common property.

If you like economics, there is no “tragedy of the commons” by overusing intellectual property. It doesn’t get used up?? Read up on patent system..?? There are good books out there iirc

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It also works into the right to repair movement.

// I folded a bit of this into the “not a hivemind guy” letter/essay, with updates

A reverse “enclosure movement”.

Tragedy of the anti commons

// older one

Idea (just brain storming session):

Technology and telecommunications national/domestic security initiative

Citizens initiated non-binding referendum

Initiated by means of petition.

You have a referendum to modify the bill of rights, nationalise the telecommunications industry, declare it a state monopoly, and place this monopoly under the nz bill of rights. All of it is in the referendum itself.

One: Modify bill of rights

Insert the two following lines into the current bill of rights:

-Everyone has the right to not have their nervous system infiltrated or molested by Government telecommunications technology, except by written consent.

-Everyone has the right to be secure against the observation of their mind by telecommunication technology, except by written consent.

Two: Nationalise telecommunications 

Nationalise the telecommunications industry: the whole thing. Fibre optic lines, broadband, mobile phones, spark, chorus, Vodafone, Skinny. Declare Government monopoly on telco industry, incl domestic fibre optic lines and cell towers

Three: place telecommunications under bill of rights

Place the government telecommunications entity under bill of rights. Ie the government telco entity and assets are subject to the nz bill of rights.

Do one, two, and three in a non binding citizens initiated referendum? And see what happens?

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If you can get it through:

Sort the rest out in court? People can now sue the Government for violation of the new items in the bill of rights. They can hire lawyers, sue under bill of rights, subpoena engineers or other persons. Very quickly you cannot actually use abrades due to the legal environment. Unless the system implements a consent based order?

If you can’t get it through: issues with legitimacy for the govt?

But first: need advertising, marketing, and propaganda, education?

It can be modified/applicable to other places?

For example: can order the Government to start its own telecommunication department. Invest in telco infrastructure. Provide telco services. And then later ban the competition?

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Other ideas:

Referendum idea: that nz must not rent its airspace, or radio frequency spectrum to others. And must police its airspace and spectrum. 

[Possibly police it by means of scanning, monitoring and conventional civil law suits against satellite providers of technology] use police, or equivalent. Not military. Just sue whomever owns the satellites, if they use spectrum that doesn’t belong to them.

Other random idea: government shall not rent airspace and electromagnetic/radio spectrum to foreign powers, or foreign registered entities. Can only be rented to companies and other entities registered in New Zealander. By petition, straight into part of some sort of constitution. Nz constitutional law is weird btw?

Maybe can do tort law for misuse of spectrum by nz entities? But start special court, with lower level of evidence. Like “the court of electronic law”, same level as district court. Appeals feeds through to high court. Kind of like family is parallel to district court.

Only the large wavelength, slow long wavelength ones are the problem afaik.

Other for bill of rights ( just for completeness)

Shall not infringe rights of people to own scanners and/or interference devices to jam, mollywaddle the satellites

Misc post dump:

I’m not safe until I post this, get it out of the way.

Treat it as misc brain storming session

Referendum, citizens initiated

Technology and Telecommunications Civil Rights Act

One:

Ban the lease of electromagnetic spectrum to private entities and foreign powers including, but not limited to spaceX.

Exceptions exist for GPS satellites.

Two:

Nationalise much of the telecommunications industry.

Government monopoly on cell towers, fibre optic for residential, radio transmission towers, tv transmission towers. (Terrestrial radio and TV)

Do it by nationalisation

Three:

Add an electronic rights segment to the NZ Bill of rights:

Government (and its allies):

Shall not interfere with your brain or nervous system via telecommunications electromagnetic waves

Shall not observe your mind’s thoughts by means of telecommunications systems electromagnetic waves

Ps: it is about electromagnetic spectrum and “property rights” for a sovereign nation

Other really clever ideas:

Abolition of patent system by binding referendum.

Abolish patents, but not copyrights (no IP of any kind on software)

Allows first mover nation to generate supernormal profits. Until other nations copy them. Liberates the intellectual pattern resource. Makes pharmacy and tech cheaper etc. solves the tragedy of the anti commons. 

When other nations follow, it changes the whole world. It triggers a massive change in the medical industry. Everything get cheaper. It stimulates massive growth and innovation in technology and biotechnology. The cost of medical tech, computer tech and pharmaceuticals will trend towards zero…

The only downside is that it wipes a metric boat load of assets off of the balance sheets of large companies. It would be awful for global capital and international finance, and perhaps the military industrial complex of the USA. The patent system is little more than protectionism for big business. It does virtually nothing to incentivise innovation and research, and does a tremendous amount to stifle it.

Add in automation and AI and open sourcing of blue prints, and things get interesting.

Also,

School vouchers are smart.