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these set of actions one can perform are called architectural rights. btw this also means that anything malicious one is capable of doing is a right, which is fine! i just thought i'd point that out. it also means no one can really complain about their rights being violated, unless in case of an
attempt to change what code everyone runs, which would tautologically be true. updates would be about what rights you get swapped out.
so you have to catch yourself when you try to use rights like this, because there is no such thing as a basic right to infringe upon, because if you can infringe upon it in that protocol, it's not a right
you *could* try to lay out "here's my favorite pet rights" and then design a protocol that meets those criteria, but if they're abstract pet rights it's likely to be a failure, because that's not what rights are on this model. "data portability" is not a right, but
the ability to swap pds is a right
the * on users is really important and a little underdeveloped, because this is also going to be users in the broadest sense, as in any entity that interacts. differentiation seems pretty important but it's also not quite so clear how to actually divvy it up

tldr i like the above rendition as a philosopher for the same reason any political moralist will dislike it: it is theoretically tidy but practically completely toothless any time you try to extend it to achieve any of the original motivating goals of its invention
i still think it can accomplish a whole lot, just different things than originally envisioned