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Policy of record

The constitution

Seven rules, written before the first dispute, so every dispute is a lookup instead of a negotiation.

  1. Truth is not for sale.

    No payment changes ranking, provenance tier, default sort, or data content. Sponsored attention, where it exists, is always labeled.

  2. Corrections are free and open to the subject forever.

    A vendor can correct its own record at any time, without an account fee and without a sales conversation.

  3. Facts are not removed for being unflattering.

    Delisting happens only for legal cause: trademark misuse on our side, a court order, a demonstrated factual error that cannot be re-verified, or targeted-harassment edge cases. A listing is facts the vendor published.

  4. History is never rewritten.

    Corrections move forward as new revisions. Prior revisions, and the evidence that supported them, stay addressable.

  5. Provenance is always displayed.

    Every record states how it knows what it claims, and says plainly when it knows something second-hand.

  6. Verification can be bought as a test, never as a result.

    A paid check runs the same method as any other check, and a failed check is publishable.

  7. The dataset stays openly licensed.

    Forks are legitimate. The claim graph and the freshness operation are earned, not enclosed.

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