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<header id="title-block-header">
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<h1 class="title">The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity</h1>
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</header>
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<h1 id="a-constitution-for-an-anonymous-planet.">A Constitution for an
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Anonymous Planet.</h1>
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<p>To amend the rules and regulations of the network and of the PSA
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community, this constitution is hereby set forth. It is applicable to
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all the projects of the initiative, especially the Hitchhiker’s Guide to
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Online Anonymity. All members/collaborators must abide by these lines
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when contributing within the context of the initiative.</p>
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<h2 id="requirements">Requirements</h2>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Our content is licensed under <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons
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Attribution NonCommercial</a></strong> to prevent commercial usage.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<h3 id="anonymity-above-everything">1. Anonymity above everything</h3>
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<p>Anonymity is necessary to maintain the balance of power, specifically
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to help journalists, whistleblowers, lawyers, scientists, and victims of
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oppression. Anonymity first, even if that means using non-free and/or
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proprietary means. Security and privacy are second, again, even if using
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non-free or non-open-source and/or proprietary means. In this sense, the
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ends may at times justify proprietary means.</p>
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<h3 id="independence">2. Independence</h3>
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<p>The Anonymous Planet initiative has no affiliation with the
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“Anonymous” collective and does not endorse their activities.<br />
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Any overlap of their activities and our guide are purely
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coincidental.</p>
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<h3 id="accessibility">3. Accessibility</h3>
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<p>We will strive to always keep available the following methods of
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reading the Hitchhiker’s Guide:<br />
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* online;<br />
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* offline (e.g., PDF, ODT, EPUB (in the future));<br />
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* via the Tor network</p>
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<h3 id="freedom">4. Freedom</h3>
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<p>Maintain free, open-source, and non-commercial nature of all our
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projects. This does not mean proprietary and/or closed-source tools
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won’t be recommendeded. All scientific knowledge should be free for
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anyone and we support and encourage Sci-Hub and LibGen. Any attempt to
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erode the freedom of information and flow of knowledge of our projects,
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in any manner, is hostile.</p>
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<h3 id="verifiability-falsifiability-and-reproducibility">5.
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Verifiability, falsifiability and reproducibility</h3>
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<p>We will make every effort to be transparent about any and all bias we
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have.<br />
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Anyone claiming to be unbiased is lying, therefore we will not falsely
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claim to be.</p>
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<p>All our content shall be verifiable, reproducible and
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fact-checked:<br />
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- academic references (e.g., studies, papers, and peer reviewed
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publications);<br />
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- reputable media references (e.g., articles, videos, and
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documentaries);<br />
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- official documentation (e.g., manuals, field guides, and technical
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documents);<br />
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- renowned and reputable expert review;<br />
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- direct testing by our own collaborators for falsifiablity</p>
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<h3 id="innocence">6. Innocence</h3>
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<p>Suspected offenders are innocent until proven guilty, with zero
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tolerance for abuse of power or position.</p>
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<p>Any accusing/moderating member is: - Subject to the burden of proving
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the wrong-doing of the offender. - Required to motivate any
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sanction.</p>
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<p>Any offender has the right to: - Face their accuser (know who is
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accusing them). - Appeal sanctions to an uninvolved third party. -
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Participate in their own incrimination (the burden of proof lies with
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the accuser). - Due process of the above.</p>
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<h3 id="freedom-of-thought">7. Freedom of thought</h3>
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<p>Open-minded and pragmatic - with no tolerance for gatekeeping.</p>
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<p>Critical thinking and fact-checking are strongly encouraged; we
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welcome criticism including of a harsh nature (excluding ad-hominem and
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slurs).</p>
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<h3 id="we-do-not-tolerate-intolerance">8. We do not tolerate
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intolerance</h3>
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<p>See the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance">Paradox of
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Tolerance</a>, which includes hate speech.</p>
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<h3 id="no-analytics">9. No analytics</h3>
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<p>Note that, while we will never use analytics, the (now free)
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platforms hosting our content might be gathering such analytics outside
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of our control, such as Github pages. As the initiative progresses, we
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will strive to avoid these as soon as possible.</p>
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<h3 id="no-profit">10. No profit</h3>
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<p>Any excess donations will only be used to support our main projects
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first and possibly support other intitiatives (like hosting Tor exit
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nodes). In all cases, we abide by the following principles:</p>
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<li>Funding transparency (i.e., all donations, spendings, source code,
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and future goals will be public).<br />
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<li>Acceptance of donations from any entity anonymously or acknowledged
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(opt-in) will not have any influence on our content.<br />
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<li>No sponsored content.<br />
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<p><strong>Disclaimer: it is possible that, coincidentally, a donation
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could correlate with a recommendation. It will then be clearly stated
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donation.</strong></p>
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<h2 id="core-goals.">Core Goals.</h2>
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<li>Help people in need of anonymity to maintain both their physical and
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digital safety.</li>
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<h2 id="non-goals">Non-Goals:</h2>
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<li>Help any people who are using this knowledge for bad purposes.
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Helping people takes precedence and we know our content can be used
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nefariously. Our initiative believes in having one good person given an
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anonymous voice, safely, is worth the risk of having several using our
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content for evil. As we do adhere to a fair “rule of law” system which,
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having 9 criminals and 1 innocent person free, is much better than
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having one innocent person in prison among 9 criminals.</li>
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<p><strong>Yours faithfully, Anonymous Planet</strong></p>
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