Timed out and enacted, 6-0. Josh
Adminned at 06 Sep 2021 19:31:54 UTC
In the rule Censorship Terms, after the text “To censor a string of text is to replace every character in it (including spaces) with a █ character”, add “, and then optionally adding or removing up to 5 █ characters”.
The Brendan cell has developed an innovative new technique, and unless we move quickly, the state may find itself unable to fight back.
An easy way out is to just make a new public cipher, though. Shrug.
Next time, post your ciphers right before you send the message.
I doubt this will pass before Brendan posts his messages just before midnight.
But, yeah, there’s a reason why real insurgent cells don’t post their private keys on the government’s own website.
btw couldn’t you remove all characters in some cases and make the censorship ‘invisible’?
We might need the incentives to communicate privately with others at the same time to go up as well. If it becomes too difficult (or too risky) to privately communicate, it might as well just be a regular No Collab dynasty.
Yeah I have some ideas around that. That’s for another proposal though; I don’t want the important business of plugging this crucial security leak to get wrapped up in the tediously factional procedures of day-to-day governance.
I don’t think this solves the problem, it just means the messages need to use a less concise code.
maybe a message just isn’t sent if it’s 100% censored? that way anything that utilizes the entire message as an obvious code is blocked
A permanent solution could be to have a rule that says something like “Cells shall not attempt to bypass censorship via clever ways” and we can call it a day. Or just, have no private comms in the first place lol.
I think the intent is to gradually choke us, while we fight back and use what we can.
I think the ideal for me would be to end up in a place where you’re having to either accept slightly compromised solutions, or find ways to establish a fuzzy but workable communicative language through the restrictions that are available to you. I want players to bypass censorship in clever ways, but not in ways that make the censorship trivial - just making a public post renders the whole censorship game moot, and there’s no challenge to it, so I kind of have to respond or just repeal the censorship rule.
The game is to find ways of communicating that I either don’t notice or can’t legislate to prevent.
Waiting for Brendan to tell me what an against vote is worth =D
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I knew this would happen.