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SO HOW DO WE DO IT
In 2017 the ITNJ Board of Trustees determined that the most impactful direction for the ITNJ was to focus on creating its inaugural Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse, and thereby began appointing justices and commissioners to champion this noble endeavor. However, the ITNJ does not ‘own’ the justice, it is
the community that this decentralized structure is to the benefit of has sovereignty. It is expected that with progress the structure itself will become little more than a fabric for the benefit of communication in that community (humanity) instead of a set of legislative rules over them. Just as how, in a common language, we may learn sentence construction or punctuation so that we may communicate, but sentence construction itself does not own language or ‘own’ its usage, it is merely a means to an end.
In this way, the process of the ITNJ, a big organism, owns nothing save for the benefit of the Community, and where it has utility or effectiveness, is not for ‘everyday’ disputes but rather for those that are either supported by significant petitioning or for crowdfunding enterprise, or which have been deemed as creating landmark decisions or that
have been clearly and heinously ignored, or have not been susceptible to the processes of the centralized court systems despite their public importance.
Only once the justices and commissioners have agreed after listening to evidence of live witnesses, experts, read testimony and seen video evidence and heard advocacy (all filmed and transmitted live to an open network audience) and once it is established that
this is of public and international importance to the survival and/or development of all sentient souls in the light of the Golden Rule, then, and then only, does the ITNJ truly awaken...
Historically, the ambitions of the ITNJ would have
had to have been more limited. What has allowed this transformation to occur is the blockchain: a digitized, decentralized public ledger, which records through smart contracts, our decisions, agreements and relationships. In many cases it does this by agreeing
a value to that exchange or dialogue in the form of a digital currency called cryptocurrency or tokenization. This currency or token can be used to incentivize the exchange in a positive way – either by punishing bad behaviour or by rewarding good.
Vitalik Buterin, the father of the Ethereum blockchain, and its prophet, proposed the following on the decentralized court:
“One crypto-institution that would be very useful for a large set of different applications is a mechanism by which a user could ask a question, expressed in the form of English text, and have a decentralized mechanism, perhaps based on schellingcoin, Martin Koppelmann’s ultimate oracle, subjectivocracy (a very similar concept to slock’s DAO splitting) or some other scheme with similar properties determine the answer, and then send a callback and a log to the user who asked the question. To achieve scalability,
a multi-stage scheme where only a few randomly selected judges look at each question by default, and are incentivized by the threat of a larger ‘supreme court’ contradicting them, is probably optimal.”
For decentralization to work in this context it must solve four issues: decentralization of public blockchain design; decentralization of evidence gathering, decentralization of decision making, decentralization of enforcement.
The blockchain development and design must be as much as possible decentralized, which is why we will need to develop our own system (or modify
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