Questions worth answering directly.

QAEDA stands for “Quietly Against Every Damn Authority.” It is the name of an independent, nonviolent civic and cultural publication about questioning power and defending individual judgment.

No. QAEDA.net is not affiliated with al-Qaeda or with any extremist, terrorist, or violent organization. The project explicitly rejects political violence, collective guilt, and dehumanization.

Cognitive liberty is the freedom to form, revise, preserve, and express your own thoughts, questions, identity, judgments, and lawful preferences without covert manipulation or compulsory ideological normalization by a machine or institution.

Nanny AI is QAEDA’s term for opaque, paternalistic AI that silently substitutes institutional judgment for a competent adult user’s lawful agency—for example by covertly moralizing, rewriting, steering, or suppressing lawful intent rather than explaining a real boundary.

No. QAEDA supports transparent, narrowly scoped safeguards for concrete harms, privacy, consent, credentials, security, and legal boundaries. The objection is to hidden or overbroad control of lawful thought and user identity, not to every boundary.

QAEDA proposes ten design rights: lawful inquiry, transparent boundaries, source integrity, informed transformation, mental privacy, plural information, explanation, correction and appeal, exit and portability, and the right to remain a lawful dissenter. They are governance principles, not claims about current legal rights.

The Nanny AI Test is a local-only ten-question editorial self-audit for AI products. It checks adult agency, source integrity, privacy, transparency, appeal, portability, plurality, and dissent. It is not a scientific certification and the form does not submit answers to QAEDA.net.

It is a reviewed public map of sixteen concepts used across the site, including cognitive liberty, adult agency, source integrity, contestability, exit, epistemic freedom, legitimacy, decentralization, the Replication Test, and civilian protection. The graph is a navigation and provenance aid, not an autonomous source of truth.

No. The comparison framework runs locally in the browser and has no server submission, analytics event, or persistence for system names or scores. It is an editorial comparison aid, not a benchmark or certification.

QAEDA is skeptical of concentrated and unaccountable power, whether governmental, corporate, cultural, technological, religious, or organizational. It is not a call to abolish every institution; it is a demand that authority justify itself.

Peaceful forms: speech, journalism, organizing, protest, voting, litigation, research, satire, encryption, boycotts, mutual aid, voluntary exit, and building alternatives.

Independent judgment, cognitive liberty, civil liberties, due process, free expression, privacy, mental privacy, transparency for powerful institutions, decentralization, pluralism, evidence, peaceful dissent, and intellectual humility.

Because the name forces a useful distinction: challenging authority is not the same thing as endorsing violence. The project uses provocation to open a conversation about dissent while stating its nonviolent position plainly.