Protection of Democracy Bill [Failed]

[Franzl]

Well the obvious problems here are:

a.) Zombies could very easily get around this. There's no objective way to judge whether a post is useless or not, and this law couldn't stop spam.

b.) It'd be a lot of work for the SoFA to determine who had posted how often in the days following his or her registration. Not only would the SoFA have to record when a poster registered, but he would also have to manually count posts in the Fantasy section from that point forward. It's not nearly as easy as it sounds.


The intent of this is very worthwhile, and I'm not eager to criticize it or knock it down, but these practical issues do pose a problem, in my opinion.

As Afleitch said, we need some ideas to reform this proposal, and I'll work to see what I can think of.

[Franzl]

I urge Senators to propose Amendments to this bill, instead of just opposing it. This bill is certainly improvable, but we still need it to pass.

I'm trying very hard to think of a way to amend this, but I haven't found any solution yet.

Counting posts on the fantasy section has certain problems, as has already been explained. Not only is the first limit (5 days) draconian, but also the trouble of counting the posts would be a big problem for the SoFA.

It's also quite likely that zombies would easily find a way around the posting requirements (spam).


I really really like the principle behind this, and I dislike zombies as much as the next person.....but I'm having some trouble believing that this proposal wouldn't cause a lot more problems than it would solve.

[Franzl]

Abstain

[Franzl]

Abstain. I'm woefully disappointed, once more, in this Senate.

What exactly do you suggest?

[Franzl]

Does anybody disagree with the intent in principle? I think everyone wants to limit zombies' influence.

The greater problem is finding a way to do that without causing more problems.