Hacked Accounts (Enforcement) Act

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Passed on the 28th of February 2025

Preamble:

An Act to make provisions for competent authorities to take quick action to remove messages by Hacked Accounts, and also to remove the relevant accounts.

Article 1: Title

§1 This act may be cited as the “Hacked Accounts (Enforcement) Act”.

Article 2: Enforcement

§2. Where an account has shown signs of being hacked, a competent authority may kick the accounts, upon order from a Judge, and cause their recent messages to be deleted.

§2.1. Provided-
1. For an account to be deemed as hacked, it must have engaged in a common scam tactic or posted or direct-messaged suspicious links.
2. A competent authority shall be any person who has permissions to ban members.
3. The manner in which the hacked accounts are to be kicked is as follows-
1. If the account has spammed scam messages within the server, the account must be banned with a message deletion time of up to 24 hours, with regard to the time which the scam messages were sent, and the member must be notified prior to this ban through Direct Messages, if possible. The member must then be immediately unbanned once the ban has taken effect,
4. If the account has not spammed scam messages on the server, it must be given a normal kick.
1.To determine whether an account is hacked, a competent authority must consider
2. The nature and purpose of the messages sent
3. Whether similar messages have been determined to be scams previously
4. Whether the messages were direct-messaged or in public
5. Before proceeding with a kick under this Act, a Judge must order the kick to take place.
§2.2. Where an account is banned correctly under section (c)(i) and unbanned within 3 minutes of the ban taking place, the action taken against the account shall be deemed to be a kick.
§2.3. Where a member has permissions to delete messages, they may delete any message containing scam links.
§2.4. A scam shall be defined as an attempt to trick a person into performing an action in a dishonest way.