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February 22, 2022

Knock Down Authoritarian Regimes, 1 Person at a Time

knocking down authoritarian regimes with data
BY: TARTLE

Do you remember what it feels like to be a kid? The joy of riding a bike, the exhilaration of running across an open field and feeling the wind on your face, that first lick of ice cream on a hot summer’s day. You had no bills to pay, places to go, or jobs to work. 

At TARTLE, we think it’s time to bring that back for people. The marketplace is our way of empowering individuals to seize control of their data and profit off of their hard work. It’s only right that you benefit the most from the effort you put out on the internet—which is not what is happening in the status quo. Especially if you are one of many people living in an authoritarian regime.

This episode is a continuation of Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby’s discussion on helping people under regimes find freedom.

Do You Have a Voice?

One indication that a person is living under an authoritarian regime is to look at their capacity for free speech. A good test would be to see if individuals like you and I can go to a public space and openly criticize the government, or their leader. If just the thought of it makes you shudder, you are living in a regime.

An extension of this freedom that regimes do not have, is the availability of reading materials and other kinds of media that may look controversial, or against the government. How heavy is censorship in these areas? While censorship does occur in varying degrees around the world, even in liberal democracies, it becomes a problem when it’s used excessively in an authoritarian regime —and for the sole benefit of keeping those in power, empowered above everyone else.

Do You Own Your Data?

Another aspect of authoritarian regimes involve issues with property rights. When it comes to personal data, you’d think that you would have sole control over it because it’s something you produce as an autonomous being. But regimes are constantly on the lookout for ways to secure your genomic  information and location, which are two of the most in-demand data packets in the world.

These packets are often passively collected by your smartphone or gadgets on a regular basis, and they tell a lot about who you are as a person. It’s a direct expression of your freedom of movement and your biological makeup. When an outside entity seeks to restrict or control you based on what you were born with or where you want to go, you are living under a regime.

Are You Already Under an Authoritarian Regime?

In passing, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby raise an interesting thought to ponder: what if you are already under an authoritarian regime?

By virtue of your participation on big tech platforms that do not commit themselves to open and transparent practices, you are already a pawn in someone else’s game of chess. Try and find out how much of your data is being used for someone else’s profit; you’ll be shocked at just how much you’re missing out. That's how you know you're in a regime.

Closing Thoughts: Help Others Leave Authoritarian Regimes

With TARTLE, you don’t need to worry about someone else coming in and taking all your data. The hard work you put into curating your digital personality will benefit only you, at the pace that you choose. And unlike regimes, we don't take credit for your hard work. We make sure that the marketplace is a transparent, decentralized system where fraud, oppression, and corruption cannot exist. It's a far cry from the life others are struggling to life in under a regime.

TARTLE wants you to reclaim what is rightfully yours. We don’t put a lot of thought into how much money and information we’re giving away everytime we connect to the internet. This is your opportunity to take the first step on the road to becoming a data champion, and to help those who are oppressed under authoritarian regimes.

When you realize the full potential of what your data is capable of doing, your influence is limitless. 

It's time to bring down regimes together.

What’s your data worth?

Summary
Knock Down Authoritarian Regimes, 1 Person at a Time
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Knock Down Authoritarian Regimes, 1 Person at a Time
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Do you remember what it feels like to be a kid? The joy of riding a bike, the exhilaration of running across an open field and feeling the wind on your face, that first lick of ice cream on a hot summer’s day. You had no bills to pay, places to go, or jobs to work. 

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For those who are hard of hearing – the episode transcript can be read below:

TRANSCRIPT

Alexander McCaig (00:06):
In the previous episode I was romanced, and in this one-

Jason Rigby (00:10):
Oh, we're going to-

Alexander McCaig (00:11):
Am I going to get romanced again?

Jason Rigby (00:12):
No, no, we're going to finish the backside of your cup.

Alexander McCaig (00:17):
I just got a text message from my fiance, Amanda, I bought yogurt from the store last night. It was in the same exact jar as the vegan one, they look exactly the same with the labels, she sends me a text she said, "I started eating the yogurt, I'm extremely upset, it wasn't the vegan one."

Jason Rigby (00:36):
But it's freaking delicious.

Alexander McCaig (00:38):
Yeah. It's in the same exact jar.

Jason Rigby (00:40):
Has she started mooing?

Alexander McCaig (00:41):
I was so happy with myself I found the yogurt that she likes-

Jason Rigby (00:44):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (00:44):
... right? Only to find out I've poisoned her with the things she doesn't want to have. You know what I mean? What an idiot.

Jason Rigby (00:51):
Well, it's perfect with your shirt today.

Alexander McCaig (00:52):
I'm the gangster vegan, you've been tricked.

Jason Rigby (00:54):
Yeah, you've been tricked. Oh, that's hilarious.

Alexander McCaig (00:58):
Oh, I hope she forgives me.

Jason Rigby (01:00):
Do you think she will?

Alexander McCaig (01:01):
Yeah, of course she will.

Jason Rigby (01:02):
So-

Alexander McCaig (01:03):
After she throws up.

Jason Rigby (01:05):
When we get into freedom-

Alexander McCaig (01:06):
Yes.

Jason Rigby (01:06):
... because that's what we're going to talk about, this is part two. We talked about 4.3 billion people living in an authoritarian regime in over 95 countries. And then we talked about the reason behind that, then we got into how TARTLE can solve that.

Alexander McCaig (01:20):
Oh yeah.

Jason Rigby (01:20):
So now I want people to understand, if they're an authoritarian regime, to educate people to understand number one, that you cannot do, is free speech. And we're going to talk about this here in a second. But number two, is property rights.

Alexander McCaig (01:38):
Whoa.

Jason Rigby (01:38):
So these two things TARTLE-

Alexander McCaig (01:41):
TARTLE champions those things for you.

Jason Rigby (01:42):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (01:43):
What is free speech, let's break it down. Speaking-

Jason Rigby (01:48):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (01:48):
... is nothing but a vocalization of something non-tangible, which is the thought of a human being-

Jason Rigby (01:54):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (01:54):
... to convey a message or idea about that individual's perspective or opinion, on their view of reality.

Jason Rigby (01:59):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (02:00):
That's what that is. I love putting definitions together. Now, that being captured in the electronic format as data, so all those things you're doing on TARTLE, is your free speech. We champion you to speak your mind-

Jason Rigby (02:15):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (02:15):
... to share those information, those thoughts, those truths about how you see things, so the world can really understand who you are for the unification of mankind. Now, that felt like slam poetry.

Jason Rigby (02:27):
I was floored, I was like-

Alexander McCaig (02:29):
That felt great.

Jason Rigby (02:29):
I was like, "Oh, this is great."

Alexander McCaig (02:30):
Wait a minute, what's the second one?

Jason Rigby (02:32):
Property rights.

Alexander McCaig (02:33):
Oh, your property rights. Oh, here's the cool part, the way we've engineered our technology-

Jason Rigby (02:37):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (02:37):
... at TARTLE, is data providence. Providence means, let's go back to the source, the origin of where those things come from. There's a ledger to track that. We know and help you and others, respect the rights that they have over their property, the work they do to create this new asset-

Jason Rigby (02:56):
Because data is property, it is your property.

Alexander McCaig (02:58):
Data is an asset, it's property, it's the person's property that generates it, right?

Jason Rigby (03:02):
And you have a right to that property.

Alexander McCaig (03:03):
100%, you have the right to share it, not share it, earn from it, expand upon it, shrink it, delete it, do whatever you want, that's your choice.

Jason Rigby (03:10):
So when we look at a platform, maybe on a social media platform, and they're not allowing free speech and they don't have property rights-

Alexander McCaig (03:17):
Or they say you can download your data and you can't.

Jason Rigby (03:18):
Yes, yeah. They don't have property rights to your data, they don't have free speech, that shows you authoritarian regime.

Alexander McCaig (03:25):
You bet it is. And if Facebook ever comes in and says, "We're going to give you a penny for your Facebook data,"-

Jason Rigby (03:30):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (03:32):
... don't let them undersell you. Know that you're getting ripped off-

Jason Rigby (03:35):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (03:35):
... know that they're trying to hide the fact that it is an authoritarian regime over your information.

Jason Rigby (03:40):
What's so funny, I'm going to use an example, I have GEICO, and so GEICO came with this thing where they'll give you a discount every month-

Alexander McCaig (03:48):
15% or more on car insurance.

Jason Rigby (03:49):
Yeah, if they... but they'll give you more of a discount, if you, on their app, give them access to your GPS location.

Alexander McCaig (03:57):
Right, they were asking me that too.

Jason Rigby (03:59):
Yeah, so-

Alexander McCaig (04:00):
Telemetry readings for how you drive.

Jason Rigby (04:01):
Yeah, for how you drive, but I don't think they really care about how you drive as much as getting the GPS location, like where you're going, what you're doing.

Alexander McCaig (04:09):
The crown jewel-

Jason Rigby (04:11):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (04:11):
... okay?

Jason Rigby (04:12):
And then that tells you actually, we always tell them, "Oh, I drive less than 12,000 miles, or I drive 15,000 miles a year, or whatever." They actually know-

Alexander McCaig (04:17):
I do 12,000 miles a week.

Jason Rigby (04:19):
... then.

Alexander McCaig (04:21):
No, then they really know.

Jason Rigby (04:22):
They know, yeah. That's like pure data.

Alexander McCaig (04:23):
Yeah. So the crown jewel of most things... Well, there's really two things here when it comes to data, genomic information to see the variation among human beings, so we can do our research going into the future.

Jason Rigby (04:36):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (04:36):
That's numero uno. Number two is location. People want to know how the herd moves. They need to know how that's studied.

Jason Rigby (04:44):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (04:44):
Your location is the last defining grip Google has on you. They're trying to hold onto that with all they got, and every other company is trying to get into that thing.

Jason Rigby (04:54):
So-

Alexander McCaig (04:57):
Your location, Jason-

Jason Rigby (04:58):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (04:59):
... is freedom of movement. When freedom of movement is restricted, okay, or someone is controlling how you share where you have moved-

Jason Rigby (05:09):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (05:10):
... that is authoritarian.

Jason Rigby (05:13):
And when you think of, when we go back to free speech and you think of authoritarian regime, a good test for this is one thing.

Alexander McCaig (05:19):
Ooh, I love a muster test.

Jason Rigby (05:20):
Yeah, a good test is, can you go to a public space and speak against that ruler?

Alexander McCaig (05:25):
Ooh.

Jason Rigby (05:26):
That's a great test. Here in the United States we can do that. I could go to a public area, and-

Alexander McCaig (05:33):
You may get slapped-

Jason Rigby (05:34):
... we have it all the time.

Alexander McCaig (05:34):
You may get slapped around by cops.

Jason Rigby (05:36):
And I can talk... Yeah, you may get slapped around by the cops, but it's not going to be a big deal. But I could go to the UK in London, and I can talk against the Queen.

Alexander McCaig (05:44):
It's not going to go in your favor.

Jason Rigby (05:46):
I can talk against the Prime Minister-

Alexander McCaig (05:47):
100%.

Jason Rigby (05:47):
... but I'm not going to get locked up or threatened-

Alexander McCaig (05:50):
No.

Jason Rigby (05:50):
They're not going to threaten me. They may tell me, "You're being obnoxious, can you get the hell out of the way."

Alexander McCaig (05:54):
Do you want to know what's really cool on TARTLE? Let's run a hypothetical scenario here-

Jason Rigby (05:59):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (06:00):
... banana farms. Maybe there's something going on with banana farms in developing countries, right?

Jason Rigby (06:06):
Dull.

Alexander McCaig (06:07):
Oh, we're treating our workers ethically, whatever, what have you.

Jason Rigby (06:11):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (06:14):
And they're all saying this looks good in the news. What happens when someone goes on TARTLE and buys the data from those workers on the banana farm, and they really tell you what's going on? TARTLE allows people to stand up and speak their truth, and they can do it in a pseudo anonymous fashion. They can either choose to put their names to it-

Jason Rigby (06:32):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (06:32):
... or choose to not to. What does that allow us to do, really get down to the truth. Get down to the brass tax what's really going on, outside of how the news or larger people that have control over it, portray that image.

Jason Rigby (06:43):
So whether it's social media platform, whether it's the state restricting speech, TARTLE-

Alexander McCaig (06:49):
Unlocks that restriction.

Jason Rigby (06:50):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (06:51):
It's like we take speech and we throw it in a bullet train, or a Ferrari, right, or an SR-71 Blackbird, or some sort of extraterrestrial craft-

Jason Rigby (07:00):
Well, the one that's... I mean, here's a prime example-

Alexander McCaig (07:03):
I was just about to talk-

Jason Rigby (07:03):
... of anti-

Alexander McCaig (07:04):
... about UFOs.

Jason Rigby (07:04):
Oh, sorry, go ahead.

Alexander McCaig (07:05):
No, no, fine tell me about the anti thing.

Jason Rigby (07:07):
Well, this is even worse.

Alexander McCaig (07:08):
Anti-gravity?

Jason Rigby (07:09):
So Parler, the app, and it was for far right people whatever, you don't know that stuff, right? People were using it for that, but it was a website.

Alexander McCaig (07:17):
What-

Jason Rigby (07:17):
It was AWS decided to just take it down. So now you have a marketplace of ideas, and Amazon can turn around and-

Alexander McCaig (07:27):
And shut it off.

Jason Rigby (07:27):
... remove that.

Alexander McCaig (07:27):
We've got to buy some satellites, unless someone then starts shooting missiles at our satellites.

Jason Rigby (07:32):
Yeah. So TARTLE is a marketplace of ideas, it is the marketplace of ideas.

Alexander McCaig (07:37):
It is the number one place where humanity comes together, and find-

Jason Rigby (07:40):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (07:40):
... understanding amongst ourselves.

Jason Rigby (07:42):
Because the one thing that we don't want to do, and this is important with free speech, the one thing that we don't want to do, is violate your principles.

Alexander McCaig (07:49):
Ever.

Jason Rigby (07:50):
Ever, yeah.

Alexander McCaig (07:50):
We are here to respect, uplift and champion you with those principles. We recognize the value of these things with human evolution.

Jason Rigby (07:58):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (07:58):
We recognize how these things help support peace, because peace happens through understanding of the other.

Jason Rigby (08:04):
Because they're willing to sacrifice your privacy for your money.

Alexander McCaig (08:08):
Yeah, for their gain.

Jason Rigby (08:09):
For their gain. They're willing to sacrifice your human rights, for their capital.

Alexander McCaig (08:15):
And that happens all the time-

Jason Rigby (08:15):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (08:15):
... we've seen it throughout history. Look at imperialism-

Jason Rigby (08:17):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (08:17):
... any sort of slave cultures that have happened. It has happened for generation upon generation. That can end. And for once-

Jason Rigby (08:24):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (08:25):
... we can use technology to actually benefit the evolutive process of human beings.

Jason Rigby (08:30):
Or we can reverse engineer alien technology.

Alexander McCaig (08:32):
And then get extraterrestrial crap and then go fly around at high speeds-

Jason Rigby (08:35):
And then China and Russia go on a search to try to find it.

Alexander McCaig (08:38):
You can't find us, you can't find us. We'll podcast-

Jason Rigby (08:41):
A cloaking device, we're going to cloak ourselves then podcast.

Alexander McCaig (08:44):
We're going to cloak the craft, we're going to float around somewhere and podcast from there, and then just beam it down. You want to know why? Because we have the technology, Jason, that can take over all listening mechanisms at one time.

Jason Rigby (08:56):
So here's another litmus test. We did one-

Alexander McCaig (08:59):
That's a really-

Jason Rigby (08:59):
... we go to public places.

Alexander McCaig (09:01):
[crosstalk 00:09:01].

Jason Rigby (09:01):
This is a really cool one.

Alexander McCaig (09:02):
What does the word litmus come from though?

Jason Rigby (09:04):
The word litmus, let's look it up. This is intriguing.

Alexander McCaig (09:07):
Litmus.

Jason Rigby (09:08):
Litmus.

Alexander McCaig (09:10):
Oh, it's a water soluble mixture. Am I... I don't think I'm spelling... Litmus test?

Jason Rigby (09:15):
Type in litmus.

Alexander McCaig (09:16):
Oh, it is litmus test. Okay. Okay, here we go, I just want to check with the origins here. The mic is in the way of me reading, there we go. Okay, litmus test is strictly scientific origin. So it actually deals with the water solubility of a single factor or event, within some [inaudible 00:09:31] or point in chemistry. A single factor that establishes the true character of something.

Jason Rigby (09:36):
Okay, so here we go, here's a good one. Here's another one, so this is the second litmus test. Can you have a gay pride parade?

Alexander McCaig (09:46):
In your country?

Jason Rigby (09:47):
Yeah, in your country.

Alexander McCaig (09:48):
Oh, oh, are you saying in... Oh.

Jason Rigby (09:50):
Think about that.

Alexander McCaig (09:51):
Well, hold on, some religions in the country may be absolutely, it's not.

Jason Rigby (09:56):
But when you look at that, usually there's an authoritarian regime to that.

Alexander McCaig (09:57):
That's the test. Wait, so you can't let people be who they want to be, and be-

Jason Rigby (10:01):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (10:01):
... proud of that specific thing.

Jason Rigby (10:02):
Yeah.

Alexander McCaig (10:03):
And also share that joy with others.

Jason Rigby (10:05):
Yes, because if you think of any country that has an authoritarian regime on it, none of them will let you have a gay pride parade.

Alexander McCaig (10:11):
What's with that? Why can't you just let people-

Jason Rigby (10:12):
So think about that.

Alexander McCaig (10:13):
Why can't people be who they want to be?

Jason Rigby (10:13):
Even Russia. I watched that documentary where there's this whole thing about, especially with men being gay-

Alexander McCaig (10:19):
No way.

Jason Rigby (10:20):
... and they're beating the fuck out of guys.

Alexander McCaig (10:22):
No way?

Jason Rigby (10:23):
Yes, it's so rude, dude. It's like-

Alexander McCaig (10:25):
I don't-

Jason Rigby (10:25):
I feel sorry for them.

Alexander McCaig (10:26):
I don't get it, why, why the hate?

Jason Rigby (10:29):
It's-

Alexander McCaig (10:29):
You want to raise fear-

Jason Rigby (10:29):
... just-

Alexander McCaig (10:31):
It's fear, because it's a lack of understanding.

Jason Rigby (10:32):
Yes, that's right.

Alexander McCaig (10:32):
Do you know when you sign up on TARTLE, you can determine... So here's what you do, we ask you for your biological sex-

Jason Rigby (10:40):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (10:41):
... and then we ask you what your gender is. And you can choose any dimension of gender of your choice, and we're going to respect it.

Jason Rigby (10:47):
So-

Alexander McCaig (10:48):
100%.

Jason Rigby (10:50):
So third test, and this is a fun one.

Alexander McCaig (10:52):
Yeah.

Jason Rigby (10:54):
Can you do comedy? Not just can you do comedy, but can you get paid for doing comedy?

Alexander McCaig (10:59):
Ah, this is-

Jason Rigby (11:00):
What country can you get paid for doing comedy?

Alexander McCaig (11:03):
You can get paid for comedy in the United States.

Jason Rigby (11:04):
Yeah, UK, you can.

Alexander McCaig (11:05):
Comedy is tough, why? Canada's-

Jason Rigby (11:07):
In the UK you can probably, maybe. So it's-

Alexander McCaig (11:09):
What is it around comedy, like South Park uses this also, where you're saying the thing in jest-

Jason Rigby (11:16):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (11:17):
So you can say things that are just whoa, what people will coin as politically incorrect-

Jason Rigby (11:22):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (11:23):
... but you're saying it... What is the stance that... This has happened to them multiple times.

Jason Rigby (11:28):
Because my thing is, can you get paid for making fun of the government? In some countries you can.

Alexander McCaig (11:34):
Yeah. In most countries, absolutely, you cannot.

Jason Rigby (11:38):
No.

Alexander McCaig (11:39):
Why is it that the governments think, that they're the ones that are supporting human life? That they have the choice of how a human being should evolve?

Jason Rigby (11:51):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (11:52):
Jason, when did that occur?

Jason Rigby (11:55):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (11:55):
When did someone think that they have all the knowledge, all the rights, and all the knowing to tell everybody else-

Jason Rigby (12:00):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (12:00):
... how they should live?

Jason Rigby (12:01):
Yes, yes.

Alexander McCaig (12:02):
When did that happen?

Jason Rigby (12:06):
When did we allow it to happen, because-

Alexander McCaig (12:08):
That is the key point.

Jason Rigby (12:08):
That's the key point.

Alexander McCaig (12:10):
When did we-

Jason Rigby (12:10):
We need to go back-

Alexander McCaig (12:11):
... as human beings-

Jason Rigby (12:11):
... and learn from history-

Alexander McCaig (12:13):
... allow that.

Jason Rigby (12:13):
... and say, "When do people, a group of people, decide to allow," because the government has force, we had a whole podcast on that. The next litmus test is, elections mean nothing. Every dictator always gets elected.

Alexander McCaig (12:25):
Always.

Jason Rigby (12:26):
So elections mean nothing.

Alexander McCaig (12:29):
You want to know a cool thing you can do with TARTLE? You can do political policy research. You could actually go up there and take a direct vote-

Jason Rigby (12:35):
Right.

Alexander McCaig (12:35):
... from every single individual who has a cellphone or access to a computer-

Jason Rigby (12:38):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (12:39):
... and know. And you can actually test that against what the government may say the count is.

Jason Rigby (12:46):
Yes. Yes. Dude, think about that.

Alexander McCaig (12:49):
How cool. And here's the best part, not one person can count, many parties can come in, buy that data-

Jason Rigby (12:55):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (12:56):
... and analyze it separately. So you have thousands of independent analysis going on at one time.

Jason Rigby (13:02):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (13:02):
Think about the value of something like that.

Jason Rigby (13:05):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (13:06):
Talk about a litmus test against what a larger government may actually say.

Jason Rigby (13:11):
So it tells you, if a government's not willing to go onto some type of transparent blockchain network-

Alexander McCaig (13:19):
[crosstalk 00:13:19]-

Jason Rigby (13:19):
... like TARTLE-

Alexander McCaig (13:20):
That's a-

Jason Rigby (13:20):
... we have a problem.

Alexander McCaig (13:20):
That's a red flag.

Jason Rigby (13:20):
Yes, there's-

Alexander McCaig (13:20):
That's our red flag.

Jason Rigby (13:22):
... fraud, and fraud is one of the biggest issues. So when we look at this freedom of speech-

Alexander McCaig (13:28):
Yes.

Jason Rigby (13:29):
... when we look at property rights, those two things, what is a way that an individual through TARTLE, can gain back their freedom for those two?

Alexander McCaig (13:40):
Well, that's super cool. Frankly, I don't even care if you use TARTLE as your personal diary-

Jason Rigby (13:47):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (13:47):
... okay? Everything you do on TARTLE, will help magnify those great values, those great human rights like free speech. You can share all that information about how you really think and feel. You can share with people in your country, and people outside of it. You can speak as freely as you want, and you can know that it's secure. And no-one will ever know who it came from, because you can choose not to share.

Jason Rigby (14:15):
I love that.

Alexander McCaig (14:15):
Because that's your choice.

Jason Rigby (14:17):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (14:17):
Okay? And it is also your property, because any piece of data that's put up there, when that free speech turns into a piece of data, you own that. And you can choose to let it go, or keep it as close to the chest as you want. You can feel safe with storing your information on TARTLE. We can't read it, we have no access to it, it's a trustless marketplace with symmetric and asymmetric encryption. We have no say how you move or how you expose your information, it is all your choice because it's your property.

Alexander McCaig (14:46):
It's like I will open up the key, the door to my front house with my key, when I choose to let that person in to be a part of my life.

Jason Rigby (14:55):
That's so badass.

Alexander McCaig (14:55):
Not like the cops come in and say, "I'm going to open it, and let whoever we want to go in."

Jason Rigby (14:59):
Yes. Well, think about, I mean, and we'll close on this, think about these 4.3 billion people-

Alexander McCaig (15:06):
That's so many people.

Jason Rigby (15:07):
... in over 95 countries, and then think about the freedom they can experience right now, if they have an internet access to TARTLE.

Alexander McCaig (15:15):
Do you remember... I don't know if you remember this feeling, but the very first time you rode a bike.

Jason Rigby (15:21):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (15:22):
Do you remember that sense of freedom?

Jason Rigby (15:23):
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Alexander McCaig (15:24):
Or when you were a kid and you were running at high speeds, and the wind's on your face, your clothing's-

Jason Rigby (15:28):
On my-

Alexander McCaig (15:28):
... pulling back on you-

Jason Rigby (15:29):
On my big wheel.

Alexander McCaig (15:30):
... or on your big wheel? But you were on top of your own world.

Jason Rigby (15:35):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (15:35):
You had that freedom, where you weren't thinking about all those other things that could restrict your choices or your thoughts. Bring that joy back, have that feeling again. Capture those thoughts and those ideas, and help expand human understanding, and not get slapped on the wrist for trying to share how you think.

Jason Rigby (15:54):
So-

Alexander McCaig (15:55):
People need to respect how you think. Whether they enjoy what you say or do not enjoy it, it is your right to have that thought. It is your right to think. It is your right to free will. We don't have to agree, but it is your choice and we respect the fact that it's your choice.

Jason Rigby (16:13):
So let me ask you this, how can someone have that respect through TARTLE?

Alexander McCaig (16:22):
When you join TARTLE, every step you take in the creation of your profile before you get to the point where it's like, "Here's me, this is my information," we tell you everything that's going on. We educate you every step of the way, because we respect you. We respect that you need to know, we respect the transparency. If there's no reciprocity in that sort of value-

Jason Rigby (16:47):
Yes.

Alexander McCaig (16:48):
... amongst party to party, something is off. We can't be hypocritical, we have to meet you where you are, and we have to bring you through the process when you're ready to be there. We will never force.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Thank you for listening to TARTLE Cast, with your hosts Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future and where source data defines the path. What's your data worth?