# kaal:claim:3266953-036

**Claim.** The Persona Protocol redistributes power toward people who have no agency in centralized systems, because community originated audits sit at the core of every Semada DAO whereas existing systems rarely include audits deriving from the community itself.

**Type.** normative  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- Semada DAO governance

**Source quote.**

> From a social justice perspective, the Semada Persona Protocol takes power and spreads it out much further to people who have no agency in the centralized systems. In the existing systems very few audits exist that derive from the community itself.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Persona Protocol, page 23

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Topics.** compliance

**Keywords.** persona-protocol, power-distribution, community-audit, social-justice

**Related claims.**

- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-039

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