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interest as a durable character judgment." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-005", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-001", "relation": "operationalizes", "note": "When systems do move from query context to consequential person-level inference, due process makes that transition contestable." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-006", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-002", "relation": "exemplifies", "note": "Youth safety illustrates how controls can target amplification and age-restricted contexts without making all inquiry identity-linked." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-007", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-001", "relation": "supports", "note": "If inquiry is part of the upstream process of belief formation, protecting it from generalized suspicion becomes central to cognitive liberty." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-012", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-005", "relation": "operationalizes", "note": "Behavioral auditing provides evidence about whether transparency, appeal, and correction mechanisms work in practice." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-008", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-009", "relation": "supports", "note": "Treating authority as an inspectable claim creates the standard by which counterpower is tested after it gains power." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-010", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-009", "relation": "constrains", "note": "The replication test is ethically bounded: opposition to domination does not excuse deliberate civilian harm or collective guilt." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-004", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-009", "relation": "supports", "note": "Function-creep evidence reinforces the need for reversibility and exit in institutions created during crisis or transition." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-011", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-008", "relation": "supports", "note": "Authority claims become harder to inspect when symbolic narratives or attributed slogans are allowed to substitute for provenance." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-012", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-007", "relation": "operationalizes", "note": "The audit framework translates cognitive-liberty principles into observable categories such as privacy, inquiry freedom, due process, agency, and data minimization." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-013", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-005", "relation": "supports", "note": "Visibility controls make notice and appeal important even when content is not formally removed." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-014", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-001", "relation": "supports", "note": "Query non-suspicion is more meaningful when private reception is not automatically identity-linked." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-015", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-011", "relation": "supports", "note": "Provenance depends on records surviving long enough to be compared, challenged, and corrected." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-016", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-009", "relation": "supports", "note": "Plural resilient infrastructure applies the counterpower replication test to information systems." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-017", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-008", "relation": "supports", "note": "Authority should not evade justification merely by routing coercive effects through intermediaries." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-004", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-017", "relation": "supports", "note": "Function-creep evidence explains why indirect and secondary-use controls need scope review." }, { "source": "QAEDA-ARG-012", "target": "QAEDA-ARG-013", "relation": "operationalizes", "note": "Detecting silent visibility control requires behavioral measurement rather than policy language alone." } ], "confidence_boundary": "Argument classification is not evidence confidence. Claim confidence remains owned by claims.json." }