The safety measures for the various phases of micro-groups are mandatory for everyone, whether they are inside or outside.

The first security measure concerns our technologies.

We don't currently have unlimited financial resources. Annual dues, free and private donations, advertising contracts, and other sources of income prevent us from purchasing significant technology, especially since we don't buy "old stuff," but only the latest, best, and most up-to-date. We've split our subdomains into several web servers: a public one containing our official website, and a free one (which allows us to register and activate all new users). This web server is always accessible to anyone, and it does a great job.

But what happens if too many people join us at once, or visit this web server at the same time? We simply block it, or it automatically blocks itself, to avoid any problems. Unfortunately, this has happened a few times already, fortunately for a few hours, and rarely for a few days.

We have three other backup servers, which also serve as dedicated web servers. The first has restricted visibility and access, reserved exclusively for our official members with a certain minimum number of points (the most active people). The second is reserved for our super administrators and administrators, to run all the essential activities of our system. The third is used virtually exclusively by our creators and guarantors, and is used for extremely important activities that cannot be disclosed publicly. These three web servers act as backups for all the others and are always available, allowing us to carry out all essential activities, even if the other web servers are temporarily down.

In cases where the first web server is blocked, to help, respect and favor all our visitors, we intend to activate another web server, with a subdomain https://public.directdemocracys.org/

It becomes visible practically within minutes of the official and free websites going down. It does not allow new users to register or access any of our reserved areas, but it does allow existing official members to obtain important information through a special procedure or with a simple login.

The second security measure concerns our external presence and visibility, which, as everyone knows, we only use to inform those who haven't yet joined us, always after informing those who are already with us and those who visit our websites. Essentially, the order in which our information is received is this: secret areas (reserved for small groups of people), user types (from the highest in our hierarchy to the lowest, also based on accumulated points), our platforms (a world premiere and exclusive), then we inform our media partners, and finally we publish authorized information on our official accounts (users, pages, and groups) on social networks external to our platforms, apps, and other websites. This order will be maintained forever, because it is the fairest, safest, and most equitable.

Our external activities will be limited to a few occasional posts, and we will not offer any kind of information, support, invitations, or assistance outside of our platforms. This choice, though criticized by some, is also strategic, and above all, it is part of our fundamental rules. In practice, if you wish to communicate with us, you must do so by respecting all our rules, methodologies, and instructions. This also prevents problems caused by those who speak on our behalf without authorization. We have official representatives for general information and support, but for certain topics and detailed questions, only our authorized groups on our websites can provide professional and helpful support.

From now on, we will no longer publish detailed articles or long posts outside of our platforms. Instead, we will simply provide you with various secure and reliable links to view our videos (including live streams), listen to our audio (including live streams), and view our articles and posts, including live chats with our authors and authorized users. This is a very important change and improvement. If you're interested in information about us, you can see it exclusively and in preview, only on our official platforms. This also prevents misinformation, theories, conspiracies, manipulations, and potential fake news regarding our system.

Micro-groups have various phases and specific safety measures.

General and specific information about microgroups.

In various informational articles—public (visible to everyone), private (visible only after logging into our websites), or restricted (visible only to certain types of users and also based on the number of points accumulated by each individual)—we have informed you, are informing you, and will continue to inform you about our various activities at the local, state, national, continental, and international levels. We try not to overload our websites with too much information for everyone, but to inform people based on their needs, for obvious reasons we've explained several times and won't repeat for once.

Micro-group tests.

In some countries, in certain specific geographic areas, we will begin local tests for our micro-groups at the appropriate time, as we adapt them as necessary, and with the activities we deem appropriate. While these are tests, they are not micro-groups created for fun; their function and presence will be permanent, fully authorized, and integrated into our system. In practice, we won't be pretending, but every activity will forever be officially recognized, and every decision made will be binding and effective. We call them tests because they are the first micro-groups we will create, and therefore, there could theoretically be tiny problems that we will need to analyze, discuss, propose, resolve, and improve to prevent them from recurring in the future. Constant attention to every detail helps make DirectDemocracyS professional and fully functional. We will be extremely careful about everything, especially security measures, and the behavior of anyone who joins us.

Slow, gradual, rapid expansion.

The test microgroups, like all microgroups, will expand rapidly, from the outer reaches of previous groups to other neighboring urban and rural areas, continuously and very carefully. All these microgroups will be connected to each other by human bridges, members of two or more groups, allowing various groups (of all sizes) and all their members to communicate, collaborate, and carry out countless activities together.

Human bridges of micro-groups.

Human bridges within various microgroups can take many forms: an official member of the previous microgroup (residing within the external boundaries of the microgroup, or the previous group), who is present in two or more microgroups, or an official member of two or more microgroups, who, as an official representative, creates his or her own microgroup in a geographic, territorial, administrative, and electoral area bordering or overlapping the initial microgroup to which he or she belonged. These physical connections also utilize all the necessary capabilities available on our platforms, such as creating connection and collaboration groups, pages, events, and a wide range of activities.

Official organizations.

According to our fundamental rules, each micro-group, when it has at least 31 members, can request and be authorized to become an official DirectDemocracyS organization, with many advantages, benefits, and enormous potential.

Union of micro-groups.

At the right time, all microgroups and all official organizations will merge with neighboring or overlapping microgroups and official organizations, forming all our various local organizations. They will do so by creating larger microgroups and larger official organizations, all the way up to the largest local levels (even integrating and merging with existing ones): street block, neighborhood, city, district, province, region, state, and group of states, and then merge and integrate with our existing and long-established national, continental, and international organizations.

It took a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of hard work on the part of all our official members.

To carry out all these vital activities, we will take all the time necessary, without any rush. We will do so with the help and active collaboration of all our official members, and of course with the supervision, collaboration, support, active assistance, and all necessary authorizations from all our national, continental, and international organizations. What we do is too important to be done quickly and without everyone's commitment. Ours has always been a collective effort, so we count on the active participation of all our official members.

Some short questions and answers.

Why don't you make the areas where you'll be creating these micro-test groups public? This will prevent any potential problems, such as sabotage, attempts to slow us down, or worse, stop us.

What will be the names of political representatives' profiles (username and personalized email address ending with @directdemocracys.org), and the names of their respective microgroups? With the geographic coordinates of the center of the urban or rural area with up to 1,000 inhabitants. This rule applies to all microgroups worldwide in our system.

Will those who want to join DirectDemocracyS to create their own micro-group be helped to do so more easily and quickly, while still maintaining all safety measures? Each of our national organizations coordinates, manages, monitors, authorizes, appoints, and supports all the official representatives of their territory, who in turn follow the same procedures with their own micro-groups. Even though we all have the same rules, methodologies, instructions, motivations, and potential, some countries will be faster and more efficient, while others will take longer and may be less organized. The important thing is to have the patience, determination, and intelligence to study and understand our system.

Everyone knows that our official members must create an official representative profile, which will have their geographic coordinates as their username and will automatically be assigned a personalized email address with the same username @directdemocracys.org. With this representative profile, they will create their own micro-group, which will officially represent DirectDemocracyS in each geographic, territorial, administrative, and electoral area, with up to 1,000 inhabitants.

A question many of our users, and even some visitors, ask us is: if a new user wants to use their real first and last name as their username, can they do so?

Each new user can use whatever username they want according to our username rules, as explained at this link:

https://www.directdemocracys.org/law/instructions/for-registration/best-username

If you wish to waive your right to remain completely invisible, from the outside or even from the inside, you can do so. Although we advise everyone not to disclose their real information, even if it's just a username and, if applicable, your primary country of residence.

If you wish to waive your right to remain completely anonymous and have a username that contains your real name and surname, you are free to do so, and no one can force you to change your mind, as long as your real name and surname do not contain the two "pp"s (political profile) at the end. This is because this is a superior user type that can only be requested, obtained, and used by official members who have paid their annual membership fee.

What types of users are eligible to join local geographic microgroups?

Only our official members, who have paid their annual dues and have user levels above that of official member, can join local microgroups. Those who create and manage a microgroup from the start, as founders, must apply for and obtain an official representative user level, and then create the local microgroup. They can inform the public about the existence of DirectDemocracyS and the microgroup in their urban or rural area, select the most suitable people to become new official members, verify annual dues (at the appropriate time, they can collect annual dues, donations, and other payments in cash, issuing a receipt), verify the identity of new users with verified and guaranteed identities, and officially invite new users by linking them to their political representative profile.

Shared leadership.

To implement our truly and fully shared leadership, all our registered users, with verified and guaranteed identities, can vote and decide on various issues in voting groups linked to each micro-group. If they subsequently obtain the official member user type, they will be able to access and join the micro-group, or our official organization (if the micro-group has at least 31 members). Official members will obviously vote in separate voting groups from registered users, with verified and guaranteed identities, always connected via human bridges to the local micro-groups. Higher user types will also have separate voting groups, also creating electors for each user type within the micro-group. Each micro-group could potentially have a elector for each user type present, as long as all votes and decisions are made exclusively by registered users with verified and guaranteed identities.

If every official member is obliged to become an official representative and create his own micro-group, around his home, isn't there a risk of having too many micro-groups, in the same area?

If an official member is already part of at least one local microgroup, they are not required to apply for and obtain the official representative profile, nor are they required to create their own microgroup. However, they have the option, and it is in their best interest to do so. Obtaining the official representative profile and creating their own microgroup, without "competing" with the microgroups they are already part of, helps our system expand like wildfire and offers numerous advantages and benefits. They automatically receive a certain number of points for creating the official representative profile and the new microgroup. They can become super-administrator of their own microgroup, which allows them to access various types of groups at higher levels, with a wealth of potential. By issuing official invitations in their urban or rural area, and by registering new users and official members, they will receive numerous points, which will be added to those earned as an official member previously and subsequently. In short, it's worth helping the system expand and creating micro-groups adjacent to the first one you join, and it costs practically nothing, except the price of a few flyers or photocopies.

A piece of advice.

Always join an initial micro-group, and only create a boundary group (as an official representative) with the one you're already a member of. This is because every official member and official representative has the obligation to act as a human bridge, enabling communication, collaboration, physical and virtual connection, and the completion of many activities among all the micro-groups they're part of. Don't join too many micro-groups, but limit yourself to a minimum of two and a maximum of five.

Motivation.

The maximum user type a person can have in a single micro-group is super administrator. In all other micro-groups, they can be any other user type except super administrator, and only one different user type per group, up to the level of simple member.

Reason 2.

It's not a good idea to be part of too many micro-groups, so as not to remain mere passive spectators, or worse, not to carry out any activity in some of them, risking penalties for inactivity.

Reason 3.

In addition to local microgroups, starting with your highest user level (for example, super administrator), you'll be part of all the larger local groups, such as medium groups, large groups, block-by-block groups, neighborhood-by-neighborhood groups, city, district, province, region, state, nation, continent, and international groups. With all these groups, there's a wide range of activities to do, and for best results, you shouldn't overdo the number of microgroups you join.

An important question about security and privacy.

How can the right to invisibility and anonymity be guaranteed in microgroups, where more or less everyone knows each other? The official representative of DirectDemocracyS who creates and manages our microgroup near their usual residence is a partially public figure. To prevent any problems, they must be identified and agree to take photographs with the people they contact on behalf of our system. Obviously, no one knows the identity of the personal profile, an official member of our system, which is linked to the official representative. All people who join the microgroup as official members can choose whether to join the microgroup with their own personal profile (official member), or if they wish to be partially identifiable within the microgroup, or if they wish to create their own, they must request and obtain the official representative profile and join one or more microgroups with a partially identifiable profile. In any case, the choice is up to the official member, with the only rule being that they cannot join a microgroup with two profiles at the same time.

Our advice in this case is to always have an official representative profile ready (you can also obtain a system profile, which we'll discuss in due course). If you wish to carry out political representation activities, as an alternative to managing and representing our system, you can also request the creation of a political representative profile. However, this will only be activated after blocking all other profiles you own, because those carrying out these activities cannot simultaneously manage our system.

Knowing each other in microgroups, often through relatives, friends, neighbors, or simply by simply seeing each other "out and about," creates a bond that's not only virtual on our platforms where all the activities will take place and where all the necessary meetings will be held, but also physically, with in-person meetings to share ideas and projects to pursue together, as well as other very important activities.

What if people don't want to pay but are happy to be represented by one or more members in the micro-group, preferring to carry out activities in person, and not on platforms?

To function, each micro-group must consist of at least two members who have paid their annual fee. With just two people, a wide range of activities can be carried out, both on our platforms (websites) and in person. However, to play a decisive role in our system and become an official organization, the micro-group must consist of at least 31 members. This minimum number of members allows us to divide the group's work, so that only a few members can do everything. For example, in our political organization, to carry out political representation activities, we must have several political profiles who will campaign within the official organization. The official organization has a dedicated group for political activities, a voting group for each user type, which allows them to create electors and play a leading role in the entire system, and many other benefits and advantages for everyone. Having a micro-group with few members, and not carrying out activities by documenting, managing, and verifying them on our platforms, is a choice made by the micro-group members, but it only brings disadvantages to everyone, for several reasons. First, by not carrying out and fully documenting every activity, those activities will not be recognized, evaluated, and rewarded (with many important points, to be distributed among group members based on their merits and specific activities). Even if the various activities were documented, fewer members of the micro-group, fewer activities, and fewer points, because larger groups receive more points, even for the same number of activities, than micro-groups with fewer members.