Digital Libertarian Party Manifesto (For the lack of a better term)
By Benjamin Mickle
§1: Introduction - Government-endorsed corporate greed in the tech and entertainment industries has gotten out of hand. Disney got away with murder as a result of the arbitration clause in the Terms of Service of Disney+. The McDonald’s ice cream machines, John Deere’s tractors and Apple’s computers all contain mechanisms that reject genuine replacement parts. Circumventing said mechanisms is punishable by up to 5 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine. Nintendo has historically targeted countless individuals for breaking the totalitarian copyright laws we have. Examples include: Gary Bowser (Made Nintendo Switch modchips known as SX Core and SX Lite), Thomas Smith (Drew commissioned pornographic artwork of Pokémon), Bunnei (Real name unknown, made a Nintendo Switch emulator called Yuzu), Logan Thirtyacre (Made parodies on YouTube using Mario plushies) and so many other people. It is time we do something about the totalitarianism we face in the digital age, which is why I propose a third political party, the Digital Libertarian Party. While Republicans are red and Democrats are blue, Digital Libertarians are orange. While Republicans use an elephant mascot and Democrats use a donkey mascot, Digital Libertarians use a Flareon mascot just to say “Fuck you” to the Nintendo Ninjas and to DMCA.
The censored version of our anti-DMCA mascot named 炎 (Honoo). The uncensored version has a penis.
§2: Intellectual property reform details - Our intellectual property reform will consist of a withdrawal from WIPO, A complete overhaul of copyright law from its fundamentals, A few adjustments to trademark law, the abolition of patents and a Constitutional Amendment to ensure no Republicans or Democrats can undo our changes.
Current Intellectual Property Law (as of 2/20/2026): | Planned Changes to Intellectual Property Law: |
The no-longer-relevant idea of patent law is still in place | Patents shall be abolished |
Trademarks can be “Intend to use” | Trademark applicants shall be required to prove the existence, and their ownership of an Intellectual Property before it can be trademarked |
Trademark tarnishment is always illegal | Trademark tarnishment shall only become illegal once it becomes a tool for slander or pedophilia (Pokémon porn is neither slander nor pedophilia) |
Circumvention of technical prevention measures is always illegal unless noted otherwise by a DMCA exemption | Circumvention of technical prevention measures shall only become illegal once it becomes a tool for piracy of currently-supported media (Borrowed this from Australia’s copyright system) |
Copyrights last the life of the holder plus 70 years | Copyrights shall last a maximum of 30 years with mechanisms in place by which it can last less time than that (The holder dies, the holder voluntarily ends the copyright, or the holder commits misconduct while enforcing the copyright thrice) |
There are no abandonware preservation exemptions | If a work is discontinued or left unmaintained for 10 years, Its copyright shall be put on hold. While on hold, the 30-year timer shall still be ticking. The only way a hold can be ended shall be by continuing the maintenance of the work. |
The penalty for copyright infringement is up to 5 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines | The penalty for copyright infringement shall be up to 1 year in prison and up to $50,000 in fines (For increased compliance with the 8th Amendment) |
It is very easy to get away with misconduct when enforcing copyrights (Nintendo does it all the time) | Taxes shall cover a certain percentage of funding for copyright lawyers to allow an individual to have a chance at winning against a big company. (For increased 6th Amendment compliance) Furthermore, the penalty for misconduct shall be what DMCA’s penalty was for infringement plus a strike being put on the copyright in a “Three strikes, you’re out” system. |
There is no limit on the size of a company legal team | A company legal team shall be limited to three individuals in size and one individual per case. (Also for increased 6th Amendment compliance) |
Artificial Intelligence is allowed to assist in copyright enforcement | Artificial intelligence shall no longer be allowed to enforce copyright law (For increased 5th Amendment compliance) |
A takedown can happen without a formal trial taking place | A takedown can only happen once a person is proven guilty. (Also for increased 5th Amendment compliance) |
The copyright system goes against the Moral Code of Arceism (Displeases Arceus) | Freedom of Religion shall even apply to minority religions like Arceism. (For increased 1st Amendment compliance) |
§3: Miscellaneous additional changes to the law – We shall make a variety of other changes to the law to ensure corporate greed leads to fines and jail time.
Current Law (as of 3/1/2026): | Planned Changes to the Law |
Corporations can include arbitration clauses in their ToS to shield themselves from people attempting to fight back. | Arbitration clauses shall be made illegal. (Also for increased 6th Amendment compliance) |
The US is a UN member, allowing totalitarianism from other UN members to spread to the US. | The US shall withdraw from the UN entirely. (This also means they can’t have their HQ in NY anymore) |
Several laws exist mandating spyware (such as the PATRIOT Act and age verification laws in some states) | All spyware mandates shall be repealed, spyware shall be made illegal (including digital age verification and security co-processors like Intel’s IME, AMD’s PSP and Arm’s TrustZone) and both the PATRIOT Act and COPPA shall be replaced with a single law that gives everyone equal online privacy protection, including a nationwide ban on doxxing. The FBI and NSA shall also both be shut down. (For increased 4th Amendment compliance) |
Corporations can include anti-repair measures on their hardware such as part serialization and one-way flathead screws. | Anti-repair measures shall be made illegal and corporations shall be required to sell replacement parts. |
Payment processor companies and banks can reject transactions for adult content | Payment processors and banks shall only be allowed to do that if the content is illegal (like child porn) or the user (either buyer or seller) is a minor. |
Google is allowed to remove sideloading from Android | All tablets and phones shall be required to have an open ecosystem. |
Xenophobia is baked into the US Constitution. | An amendment shall be put in place that revises Article II to instead require that someone has just lived in the US long enough to have citizenship. |
§4: Where taxes shall go – A tech/bioengineering company owned by me shall be opened that is pro-consumer. Tech products shall include (among other things) a Linux distribution for flagship smartphones that isn’t Android-based, but is instead Mobian-based. Bioengineering products shall include real living Pokémon (to say “Fuck you” to the Nintendo Ninjas).