Protest demonstrations

Official Statement on the Protests

DirectDemocracyS respects the freedom to demonstrate, which must always be guaranteed to everyone: from individuals to small groups, from trade unions and political forces to large-scale mobilizations of well-intentioned citizens. We must never confuse more or less just reasons with the despicable activities that unfortunately occur all too often during protests. Faced with violence from even a single individual or a few provocateurs, the remaining 99.99% of participants unfortunately lose credibility, and this is profoundly wrong and unacceptable.

Anyone who acts violently is wrong and must be immediately identified, reported, investigated, judged, and, if found guilty, severely punished. Likewise, action should be taken against those who instigate such violence, those who organize it, and those who carry it out. In some cases, the perpetrators are minors: the issue is dismissed by referring to ill-mannered youth, sparking generational conflicts, fueling racist judgments, and, above all, legitimate and well-motivated demonstrations are condemned because of a handful of criminals.

DirectDemocracyS criticizes and condemns anyone who exploits young people or manipulates weak minds for purely political gain. We also firmly condemn those who infiltrate such democratic demonstrations with the aim of "disrupting the conversation" and diverting attention from the protests' true objectives. It happens too often that people allow themselves to pass judgment when there is clear evidence that the reasons for many protests are deliberately obscured by incidents of destruction to bolster electoral consensus. Sometimes, to justify the use of force, protesters are provoked or police are pushed into excessively brutal interventions, even to the detriment of innocent people. It is paradoxical that dictatorial regimes then allow themselves to judge demonstrations in the freest and most democratic countries to say, "Look, they have problems too ." These dictators would have no qualms about arresting, beating, or killing their opponents; therefore, they have no credibility to impart lessons in ethics and morality.

Why is DirectDemocracyS better than all the others?

First of all, we don't organize frequent or futile demonstrations: taking to the streets requires serious reasons, not political battles created by those seeking electoral visibility. Even in the management of our protests, we are completely different and better.

Here are our basic rules for parades:

1. Planning and Permits: Each of our events is organized by agreeing and negotiating dates, exact times, and well-defined routes with the authorities and law enforcement.
2. Identification and Security: In due time for the mandatory procedures to be carried out, our official representatives will ensure the identification of each participant and search them to prevent the introduction of weapons or objects capable of causing harm to people or property.
3. Identification bibs and groups: Each participant will be given a bib with an identification number matched to our lists. Structured groups will be formed, and our leaders will prevent any contact with unidentified outsiders, preventing any intrusion by people or blunt objects. To prevent intrusions, active support from law enforcement will be requested. Any intrusion aimed at boycotting the event or inciting violence will not be tolerated.
4. Transparency and accountability: Our protests are open to all who participate in them, wearing only the assigned bib and always with their faces uncovered. All our protesters are required to report and detain anyone who attempts to cover their face or exchange their bib (a device that certifies identity; if it is passed on to third parties who commit illegal acts, the person who gave it up will be held liable).
5. Monitoring and Video Surveillance: From start to finish, in addition to using cameras along the route, our official members will take turns filming each section of the parade and the surrounding area to promptly identify and report any violations of our regulations. The recordings will be sent live to our servers and used to demonstrate our complete non-involvement in any act of violence, including abuse of power. In such cases, anyone who commits, orders, or organizes violent acts will be identified, reported, judged, and punished.
6. Collective legal protection: Every person, institution, political force, or lobby must know that our response will not only be public condemnation, but will result in civil and criminal action in every judicial venue, on behalf of all our official members (as co-owners of our system).

These fundamental rules will be rigorously enforced by our system in all public activities. Only by ensuring public order, respecting those who do not participate in the protest, minimizing disruption, and protecting people and their property will our ideas and voice be truly heard, understood, and appreciated.

October 2026 Demonstrations in Europe

As proof of the validity and dramatic urgency of our rules, one need only look at the wave of protests and unrest sweeping Europe this October 2026. From France to Italy, from Belgium to Spain, all the way to Portugal and Albania, tens of thousands of citizens, including many young people and students, have taken to the streets to assert often understandable reasons: the rising cost of living, housing insecurity, cuts to public education, and the drastic decline in purchasing power.

However, what has happened in recent weeks represents yet another demonstration of the total failure of the old way of conceiving protest:

• Material and economic damage: In several European cities (with very serious incidents in Paris, Milan, Brussels, and Tirana), protests that began with peaceful intentions have turned into urban guerrilla warfare. The toll estimates hundreds of millions of euros in damage to the community: shop windows smashed, small businesses brought to their knees, public assets devastated, vehicles set on fire, and entire neighborhoods paralyzed. Damages that, in the end, are always repaid with taxes paid by the same innocent citizens.
• Physical harm: Hundreds of people were injured, including protesters, bystanders, and law enforcement. The involvement of minors is particularly serious, often used as "human shields" or driven by social media trends to loot and violence. Meanwhile, the other side has sometimes witnessed brutal and indiscriminate repression, with disproportionate use of water cannons and tear gas.
• The defeat of democracy: Due to the criminal actions of a few hundred delinquents or infiltrators, the legitimate demands of hundreds of thousands of people have been completely obscured . Governments respond with states of emergency and the deployment of special forces, while the public ends up talking only about the devastation rather than discussing essential social reforms.

DirectDemocracyS condemns in the strongest terms every single drop of violence. We condemn those who destroy, loot, attack law enforcement, and exploit the anger of young people for political destabilization. At the same time, we condemn the disproportionate state violence that responds to abuse by targeting peaceful protesters and defenseless children.

DirectDemocracyS 's methods had been applied —with prior identification via a list, mandatory bibs, uncovered faces at all times, internal surveillance, and continuous video recording transmitted to our servers—there would have been no room for infiltrators. No windows would have been broken, no young people would have ended up in hospital or manipulated, and the real motivations behind the protest would have received the respect, attention, and value they deserve.

We are not against the right to protest: we are the only system capable of ensuring that protest remains a pure, peaceful, clean, and unbeatable instrument of democracy.