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The Socratic Hearth

A line of law, argued

A position can be about a line of written law. Here is one: line 8 of this family’s draft list of what everyone should be able to expect. It starts from a rule that is already law in the EU and asks for more.

What everyone can expect · draft 0.3line 8 of 9
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To be free of any score of how you live that follows you into unrelated parts of your life, or costs you more than what you did.

Line 8 asksany score, kept by a person or a machine, for everyoneThe EU AI Act bansscores made by AI systems, in the EU,since 2 February 2025for example, an automatedsocial-behaviour scorefor example,a landlord’s blacklist,a screening firm’sscore kept by hand
Article 5(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689: a ban on scores that harm people in unrelated parts of life, or out of proportion to what they did. The examples outside the inner box are ours.

No group has argued this line yet. The notes beside it are examples.

a Widen it to every score, whoever keeps it.example position · 85% sure, then 70% after the case against
b Keep it to automated scoring. The harm the Act names is scale.example position · 60% sure, unchanged by the case against
c Name tenant screening in the line itself, or nobody will know it counts.example position · 75% sure, then 80% after the case against
+ An example amendment:
To be free of any score of how you live, whether a person or a machine keeps it, that follows you into unrelated parts of your life, or costs you more than what you did.

From a card to a law

The draft’s real history on the left. On the right, the steps no group has taken yet.

the draft so far, datedwhat no group has done yet0.119 Septseven lines0.223 Septadds line 80.323 Septadds line 9positionson devicesnot counteda circle meetsnone heldat the Work Partythe next draftnot yeta circle’s wordingadoptedby no groupwith a review dateat each review date the line opens again, with what happened since

done, and datedbuilt, never usednone yet

Paragraph by paragraph. Decidim, the open-source platform that began in Barcelona, splits a draft law into paragraphs anyone can propose amendments to, and each paragraph’s author accepts or rejects them in public. Decidim amendments

Law kept as files. Washington, D.C. publishes its legal code on GitHub, and in 2018 took a resident’s correction as a pull request. Route Fifty

A draft nobody had to adopt. In 2012 two thirds of Iceland’s voters backed a constitution drafted by 25 citizens with help from the public. Parliament never passed it. That is why this site’s register names who adopted what, and when they will review it. 2012 referendum