First AI nation (free from taxes?)

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3 points·metaph6··5 comments

This is just BS intended to impress the clueless with an interpretation of Montevideo convention that no signatory state, or international law accepts. Artificial installations and uninhabitable territories cannot be considered as territories sufficient for statehood.

Being stateless (flagless, without national character) means that any state is authorised to exert jurisdiction over a stateless vessel.

> Being stateless (flagless, without national character) means that any state is authorised to exert jurisdiction over a stateless vessel.

Under whose law? How can whatever law rightfully be applied to a party that refuses to acknowledge the purported jurisdiction or authority?

Try refusing to acknowledge the purported jurisdiction or authority of the country you live in and you’ll find out how.

>Under whose law?

UNCLOS and customary international law.

> How can whatever law rightfully be applied to a party that refuses to acknowledge the purported jurisdiction or authority?

That's in effect what international law says. No international law protects against against states that mess with stateless ship. Positing oneself outside a jurisdiction or authority in international waters removes legal rights and protections.

"We are outside the law" and "We have legal rights" can't be combined together opportunistically.

Humans in a vessel have basic human rights, but "states", "corporations", and "properties" are made up things established by laws and treaties. If you are not party in any of them, they don't exist.

While this is essentially a ship in international waters, I wonder what happens if they make enough money to become a precieved threat

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