The Constitution · Commitment 06 of 11
No pay-to-play. No tiered entry fees.
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Refusals locked by this commitment
- No pay-to-boost.
Earned attention only. No promoted posts. No paid visibility upgrades.
Direct application. Pay-to-boost is the cleanest possible expression of pay-to-play: pay money, get more reach. The Constitution forbids it explicitly.
- No push notifications.
This product does not chase you. We do not originate the visit.
Push notifications are engineered re-engagement: they pull attention back to the platform when the user wasn't seeking the platform. The cost is paid in interruptions — your dinner, your sleep, your kid's homework, your own focus — and the platform captures the visit. This is pay-with-attention in its most acute form: the platform spends an interruption to extract a session. The Constitution forbids pay-to-play; we apply it to interruption-as-currency.
- No infinite scroll.
Every list ends. The terminal point is design, not accident.
Infinite scroll is the engineered mechanism through which engagement-ranked feeds extract attention. It removes the natural stopping point that would otherwise let the viewer reflect and decide whether to leave. The Constitution forbids pay-to-play; we apply it broadly to pay-with-attention. The infinite feed is the floor through which attention leaks; refusing it constitutionally closes the leak.
- No algorithmic feed.
Your attention is not the product. The order of what you see is chronological — not engineered to keep you here.
Engagement-ranked feeds are pay-to-play with attention as the currency. Visibility flows to whichever content most efficiently captures attention; that is the same dynamic as paid placement, with the cost paid by the viewer instead of the seller. The Constitution forbids pay-to-play; we extend it to pay-with-attention because the harm isn't who pays in dollars but who pays in hours, anxiety, and polarization.
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