Thursday, September 02, 2021

Proposal: Ministry of Adversary

Timed out and enacted, 7-0. Josh

Adminned at 04 Sep 2021 08:50:30 UTC

Add the following to the end of the rule Censorship Terms:

As a Cyclical Action, the Ministry of Information may Issue a Notice, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Make a post to the Blog detailing a single addition that will be made to the list of Censorship Terms;
* Add the specified new Censorship Term to the list of Censorship Terms in this rule.

No Censorship Term may apply to any Communication created before the Notice that established it was posted.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Constitutionality:

A High Court Challenge is a post in the Story Post: Votable Matter category with a [HCC] tag. Any Cell may raise a High Court Challenge if they feel that a Censorship Term is unconstitutional, or if they feel that a Message was censored incorrectly as per the Censorship Terms. A High Court Challenge must mandate that a Censorship Term be removed or amended to a specific text, or that a previously-sent Message be resent to its Intended Recipients with a specific censored passage left uncensored.

The Ministry of Information may veto High Court Challenges.

When a High Court Challenge is Enacted, its poster gains 1 Adherent and its specified effects are made on the ruleset and/or gamestate. The oldest Pending High Court Challenge may be Enacted by any Admin if all of the following are true:

* It is Popular.
* It has been open for voting for at least 24 hours.
* It has not been Vetoed.

The oldest Pending High Court Challenge may be Failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:

* It is Unpopular.
* It has been Vetoed.

A Censorship Term is Unconstitutional if any of the following are true:
* It specifically and explicitly targets one or more named Cells.

If Proposal: Census and Censurability was enacted, change “1 Adherent” in the text above to “1 random Citizen as an Adherent”.

Add the following to the end of the rule Cycles:

No Public Communication may include the uncensored text of any Message that has been sent in this dynasty, or a Message which the poster intends to send.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

02-09-2021 08:05:27 UTC

“gains 1 Adherent” will need a different phrasing if Census and Censurability passes, to say which specific Citizen joins the Cell.

And “No Public Communication not include” is somewhere on or over the boundary of a typo.

Josh: Observer he/they

02-09-2021 08:48:40 UTC

Thanks - have made changes.

Brendan: he/him

02-09-2021 15:29:50 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

02-09-2021 15:34:45 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

02-09-2021 16:59:35 UTC

imperial The enacting admin won’t be able to select a random Citizen, because they can’t see the list, but there’s time to patch that.

lemon: she/her

03-09-2021 00:04:05 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

03-09-2021 02:02:29 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

03-09-2021 10:00:33 UTC

for