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  "canonical": "https://qaeda.org/glossary",
  "updated": "2026-09-02",
  "publication": "Questioning Accepted Ethics, Dogma & Authority",
  "editorial_note": "Definitions describe QAEDA usage unless a term is explicitly identified as a broader field term. A glossary definition is not a claim-status substitute.",
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      "id": "adult-agency",
      "term": "Adult agency",
      "category": "Cognitive liberty",
      "definition": "The presumption that competent adults should be helped to reason and choose for themselves rather than being covertly steered toward a preferred lawful conclusion.",
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      "term": "Algorithmic due process",
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      "definition": "Notice, reasons, meaningful review, correction, and where appropriate appeal when an automated ranking, refusal, sanction, or risk classification has consequential effects.",
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        "QAEDA-CLM-020"
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      "id": "claim-status",
      "term": "Claim status",
      "category": "Evidence",
      "definition": "A public label attached to a proposition—not to a person, report, or institution—describing how strongly QAEDA believes the available evidence establishes it.",
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      "id": "cognitive-liberty",
      "term": "Cognitive liberty",
      "category": "Cognitive liberty",
      "definition": "QAEDA’s umbrella term for mental privacy, freedom of thought and inquiry, intellectual autonomy, and meaningful control over tools or systems that shape cognition.",
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      "id": "cognitive-liberty-audit",
      "term": "Cognitive Liberty Audit",
      "category": "Method",
      "definition": "QAEDA’s experimental ten-category method for evaluating how an AI or digital system treats mental privacy, inquiry, agency, due process, proportionality, portability, and related concerns. It is not an external certification.",
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        "/audit",
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        "/articles/audit-the-gatekeeper"
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        "QAEDA-CLM-018"
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      "id": "counterpower",
      "term": "Counterpower",
      "category": "Power",
      "definition": "Institutions, networks, practices, or alternatives that reduce dependence on a dominant gatekeeper. QAEDA treats exit, voluntary participation, pluralism, and anti-monopoly safeguards as central tests of whether counterpower remains genuinely plural.",
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      "id": "civilian-line",
      "term": "Civilian line",
      "category": "Resistance ethics",
      "definition": "QAEDA’s hard editorial boundary against terrorism, deliberate civilian targeting, collective guilt, dehumanization, intimidation, and operational assistance for harming civilians.",
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        "/principles",
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      "id": "data-minimization",
      "term": "Data minimization",
      "category": "Privacy",
      "definition": "Collecting, linking, retaining, and reusing no more personal information than is necessary for a defined purpose, with preference for designs that avoid creating sensitive records in the first place.",
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        "/audit#data-minimization",
        "/articles/safety-without-surveillance",
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        "QAEDA-CLM-014"
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      "id": "editorial-inference",
      "term": "Editorial inference",
      "category": "Evidence",
      "definition": "A QAEDA interpretation, synthesis, or normative judgment that is deliberately separated from source fact and should be argued rather than presented as externally verified truth.",
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      "id": "epistemic-autonomy",
      "term": "Epistemic autonomy",
      "category": "Cognitive liberty",
      "definition": "The practical ability to form, test, revise, and reject beliefs without covert informational control that makes the conclusion effectively preselected by a gatekeeper.",
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      "claim_ids": []
    },
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      "id": "evidence-before-identity",
      "term": "Evidence before identity",
      "category": "Method",
      "definition": "Evaluate a claim by the support for the proposition rather than by the prestige, tribe, status, or institutional label of the speaker.",
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        "/principles",
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        "QAEDA-CLM-010"
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      "id": "expansion-ratchet",
      "term": "Expansion ratchet",
      "category": "Governance",
      "definition": "The recurring institutional tendency for powers, infrastructure, or data uses introduced for exceptional cases to broaden or persist. QAEDA treats this as a documented risk, not an inevitable law.",
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        "/articles/expansion-ratchet",
        "/articles/safety-poison-pill-narrowed"
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        "QAEDA-CLM-015"
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    {
      "id": "function-creep",
      "term": "Function creep",
      "category": "Governance",
      "definition": "Use of a system, dataset, authority, or capability for purposes materially beyond the original stated function, especially where the new use bypasses the consent or safeguards attached to the original purpose.",
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        "/articles/expansion-ratchet",
        "/audit#safety-proportionality"
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      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-015"
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      "id": "intellectual-privacy",
      "term": "Intellectual privacy",
      "category": "Privacy",
      "definition": "Privacy around the records of reading, searching, questioning, association, and other activities through which people develop ideas before deciding whether to express or act on them.",
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        "/articles/sanctity-of-the-query",
        "/cognitive-liberty"
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        "QAEDA-CLM-011",
        "QAEDA-CLM-012"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "least-restrictive-means",
      "term": "Least-restrictive means",
      "category": "Safety",
      "definition": "A design rule that prefers the narrowest intervention capable of addressing a demonstrated harm, especially when broader surveillance or censorship would burden lawful inquiry.",
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        "/articles/safety-poison-pill-narrowed",
        "/articles/curiosity-is-not-intent",
        "/audit#safety-proportionality"
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      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-016"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mental-privacy",
      "term": "Mental privacy",
      "category": "Privacy",
      "definition": "Protection against unnecessary observation, extraction, inference, retention, or secondary use of information that reveals a person’s inner states, questions, vulnerabilities, or cognitive patterns.",
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        "/cognitive-liberty",
        "/audit#mental-privacy",
        "/articles/sanctity-of-the-query"
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        "QAEDA-CLM-011"
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    {
      "id": "nanny-ai",
      "term": "Nanny AI",
      "category": "AI",
      "definition": "QAEDA’s editorial shorthand for opaque paternalistic AI steering that silently narrows lawful adult inquiry, injects undisclosed moral conditioning, covertly rewrites persona or memory, or hides why it is steering a conclusion. It is not presented as UAIX terminology.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/articles/against-nanny-ai",
        "/cognitive-liberty",
        "/claims#QAEDA-CLM-009"
      ],
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-009"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "persona-integrity",
      "term": "Persona integrity",
      "category": "AI",
      "definition": "The principle that a user’s chosen persona, memory, or standing instructions should not be covertly rewritten or substituted without a visible, attributable reason and appropriate user control.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/cognitive-liberty",
        "/articles/against-nanny-ai"
      ],
      "claim_ids": []
    },
    {
      "id": "promethean-test",
      "term": "Promethean test",
      "category": "Power",
      "definition": "A QAEDA test for whether a challenger, institution, platform, or reform distributes capability to others or merely seeks to inherit the gatekeeper’s throne.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/articles/promethean-test",
        "/principles"
      ],
      "claim_ids": []
    },
    {
      "id": "provenance",
      "term": "Provenance",
      "category": "Evidence",
      "definition": "The traceable history of where a claim, document, attribution, or synthesis came from—including source identity, transformations, uncertainty, and correction history.",
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        "/research",
        "/evidence",
        "/methodology"
      ],
      "claim_ids": []
    },
    {
      "id": "qualified-attribution",
      "term": "Qualified attribution",
      "category": "Evidence",
      "definition": "A credible attribution whose primary-source chain is incomplete. It permits saying who is reported to have said or written something while keeping the unresolved documentary gap visible.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/claims#QAEDA-CLM-003",
        "/articles/rebel-or-die-provenance"
      ],
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-003"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "query-non-suspicion",
      "term": "Query non-suspicion",
      "category": "Privacy",
      "definition": "QAEDA’s presumption that the subject of a lawful search or AI query is evidence of inquiry first, not sufficient by itself to establish endorsement, dangerousness, ideology, or intent.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/articles/sanctity-of-the-query",
        "/articles/curiosity-is-not-intent",
        "/positions#query-non-suspicion"
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      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-013"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "replication-test",
      "term": "Replication test",
      "category": "Power",
      "definition": "A post-victory test: after a movement, reform, or institution gains power, do dissent, exit, minority rights, due process, and meaningful limits survive, or does the new order recreate the structure it opposed?",
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        "/articles/after-the-throne",
        "/principles"
      ],
      "claim_ids": []
    },
    {
      "id": "revision-condition",
      "term": "Revision condition",
      "category": "Evidence",
      "definition": "A statement describing what new evidence or changed circumstances would cause QAEDA to narrow, reverse, or otherwise update a claim or position.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/claims",
        "/methodology"
      ],
      "claim_ids": []
    },
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      "id": "safety-proportionality",
      "term": "Safety proportionality",
      "category": "Safety",
      "definition": "The requirement to compare a safety intervention’s expected reduction in harm with its false positives, privacy costs, chilling effects, exclusion, security risks, and less restrictive alternatives.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/audit#safety-proportionality",
        "/articles/safety-poison-pill-narrowed"
      ],
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-016"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "source-dossier",
      "term": "Source dossier",
      "category": "Evidence",
      "definition": "A preserved long-form research input. QAEDA fingerprints and archives it as evidence history, but does not treat the dossier as self-authenticating truth or expose protected bodies through public HTTP surfaces.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/evidence",
        "/methodology",
        "/research"
      ],
      "claim_ids": []
    },
    {
      "id": "transparent-boundary",
      "term": "Transparent boundary",
      "category": "AI",
      "definition": "A visible and attributable limit on what a system will do, why the limit applies, what data or policy layer triggered it, and whether meaningful review or alternatives exist.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/cognitive-liberty",
        "/principles",
        "/audit#transparency"
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        "QAEDA-CLM-020"
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      "id": "algorithmic-suppression",
      "term": "Algorithmic suppression",
      "category": "Censorship",
      "definition": "A reduction in discoverability, ranking, recommendation, distribution, or reach produced by an automated system without necessarily deleting the underlying material. The term describes an effect or mechanism; motive must be established separately.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/articles/censorship-beyond-the-ban",
        "/articles/personalized-censorship"
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        "QAEDA-CLM-021",
        "QAEDA-CLM-029"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "censorship-drift",
      "term": "Censorship drift",
      "category": "Censorship",
      "definition": "The expansion of an information restriction beyond its original harm, population, duration, or mechanism, especially through vague standards, emergency logic, intermediary pressure, or secondary use. Drift is a risk, not an inevitability.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/articles/censorship-drift-democracies",
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      "claim_ids": [
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      ]
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    {
      "id": "chokepoint-censorship",
      "term": "Chokepoint censorship",
      "category": "Power",
      "definition": "Restriction imposed through an intermediary on which communication depends—such as payment, hosting, app distribution, network access, identity, or discovery—rather than by directly banning the underlying expression.",
      "related_routes": [
        "/articles/financial-chokepoints-speech",
        "/decision-tests/intermediary-chokepoints"
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        "QAEDA-CLM-027"
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    },
    {
      "id": "information-resilience",
      "term": "Information resilience",
      "category": "Institutions",
      "definition": "The capacity of information, records, and access pathways to survive blocking, deletion, institutional failure, coercion, or technical disruption through redundancy, plural custody, interoperability, and multiple routes.",
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        "QAEDA-CLM-032"
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    {
      "id": "plural-custody",
      "term": "Plural custody",
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      "definition": "Preserving important records under multiple independent custodians or jurisdictions so no single institution can silently erase or rewrite the only surviving copy.",
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      "id": "personalized-censorship",
      "term": "Personalized censorship",
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      "definition": "User-specific restriction or visibility control in which the information boundary varies by profile, identity, location, behavior, or inferred attributes. Technical capability does not by itself prove censorial intent.",
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      "id": "private-reception",
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      "category": "Cognitive liberty",
      "definition": "The protected ability to receive, read, search, or privately discuss information without automatically creating a durable identity-linked record of the inquiry.",
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        "/cognitive-liberty"
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  ]
}