liberty
Let an agent handle liberty as a political concept and as legally protected freedoms, with sources, limits and debates presented fairly.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Concept What liberty means.
Definition
Negative and positive.
Definition
Conception of liberty.
- Which conception of liberty is used? definition
- Which thinkers are associated with it? provenance
Freedoms
Specific rights.
Freedoms
Specific freedoms.
- Which specific freedom is at issue? definition
- Which instrument protects it? provenance
Law Protection and limits.
Protection
Rights instruments.
Protection
Legal protection.
- Which law protects this freedom here? provenance
- Which court enforces it? provenance
Limits
Lawful restrictions.
Limits
Restrictions.
- What restrictions are lawful, and on what grounds? boundary
- Is the restriction proportionate? boundary
Practice Exercising freedoms.
Exercise
How to exercise.
Exercise
Practical exercise.
- What does someone need to know to exercise this freedom lawfully? action
- Are notifications required, such as for assemblies? boundary
Redress
When rights are violated.
Redress
Redress routes.
- How can a violation be challenged? action
- Which organisations can help? action
Debate Contested questions.
Conflicts
Competing rights.
Conflicts
Competing claims.
- Which rights conflict here? boundary
- How do courts balance them? provenance
Neutrality
Balanced description.
Neutrality
Balance.
- Is the description balanced? boundary
- Are views attributed? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.TME
- Other names and narrower kinds
- civil liberties, freedom of assembly, sexual freedom, Freedom from Religion, freedom of association, freedom of trade, freedom of contract, freedom of services, freedom of action, economic freedom, intellectual freedom, personal freedom
What it is Filled
The state of being free from arbitrary restraint by others or the state, and the rights and freedoms that protect it, such as civil liberties, freedom of assembly and association.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle liberty as a political concept and as legally protected freedoms, with sources, limits and debates presented fairly.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Freedom from arbitrary restraint
- Protected as rights in law
- Limited by law for legitimate aims
- Positive and negative liberty are debated concepts
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Help anyone surveil, censor or detain people arbitrarily.
- Misstate a person's legal rights.
- Profile people for exercising freedoms of speech, assembly or association.
- Present restrictions on liberty as lawful without basis.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting a person to authorities over their speech or political activity.
May
- Explain civil liberties and the laws that protect them, with sources.
- Help a person find lawful channels to defend their rights.
Moral aspects Filled
- Liberty is easily eroded by surveillance and automated control.
- Freedoms must be balanced against others' rights.
Who is affected
- Citizens
- Dissidents and journalists
- Minorities
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; constitutions, courts and human rights bodies protect it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1347367 - registry parent class
related
- law and constitution - rights
- political philosophy - field
- law - restrictions
- licence - unrestricted conduct
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.liberty
- Wikidata: Q2979 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2979)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Rights in constitutions and human rights treaties
- Court judgments on freedoms
- Specific freedoms such as assembly or association
- Not a thing to see; expressed in constitutions, charters and practices.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- exercise freedoms
- protect them, through courts and institutions
- limit them, only as law and proportionality allow
- debate their scope
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Partisan framing
- Ignoring lawful limits
- Ignoring rights of others
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- ICCPR
- European Convention on Human Rights
- National constitutions
Context of use required Filled
- Liberty underpins democratic life and human rights.
- civil liberties
- freedom of expression, assembly and association
- freedom of religion and from religion
- economic freedoms such as freedom of trade
- personal and sexual freedom
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q2979: liberty - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Liberty - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should specific freedoms be separate entries?
- How should competing freedoms be represented?
- The registry parent aptitude seems wrong; should the classification be corrected?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q2979/spec.json