[Meta] [RFC] Fenspace 2022, take 2

[Ace Dreamer]

If I understand it, March 2010 was Kandor Con, where the Articles of Convention were established. Any 'Dane government that wanted to do business with Fenspace needed to sign these.

Not quite right. The Articles of Convention were drafted, signed and all that good stuff in 2009 at IslandCon. This was the Fen declaring "we're not just a bunch of crazy people, we're a nation with governments and everything." The Kandor Treaty was where the nations of Earth said "okay fine, you're a nation with governments and everything." AI rights were one of those things not directly in the treaty (AIs were still very uncommon as far as anybody knew in 2010, before the war and whatnot brought hundreds of 'em out of the woodwork, and even so most either had a very good cover or weren't interested in visiting Earth anyway) so the rights of AIs as Convention citizens was... murky. To say the least.

Does Fenspace have any leverage to get 'Dane governments to recognise the rights of AIs, then?
As I understood it, sometime in 2010-11, Australia effectively has.  The USA definitely hasn't.  I was assuming that Eire had decided it gave them economic advantages, and had.  Commonwealth countries were a bit ambiguous (apart from Australia).
Could we agree a table of when (if) various countries give AIs legal rights?
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