Emergency Border Amendment

Preamble=

Whereas the state has a responsibility to protect the people of SimDemocracy.

Article 1 — Amendments

§1. Article 1, clause §5 of the State of Caution and Emergency Act 2025 shall be amended to say the following:

§5. During the State of Caution the President of SimDemocracy can authorise any or all of the following decisions:

(a) Confining newly arrived users to the discord server, for whom there is not any evidence of posting to the SimDemocracy discord server during the past and who are not registered voters, to a specific area for new members, each new user may be confined within the new members area for up to 48 hours.

(b) Confining users with accounts which have been in the server for up to 4 weeks to a specific area. This can only be done if there is probable cause that the account has committed a crime or is an alternate account. This action must be certified by a court within 48 hours. The account shall only be released after a trial, if there is no certification within 48 hours, or if the state of caution ends.

(c) Restricting the image posting and link embedding permissions for newly arrived users to the discord server, for up to a week after joining the discord server (there may be exceptions decided via a case-by-case basis).

(d) Postponing Voter Identification applications until the conclusion of the State of Caution or until the postponement of Voter Identification applications has been activated for a week, whichever is sooner.

(e) The ability to post and comment to the subreddit (r/simdemocracy) may be restricted for the duration of State of Caution to approved users. All elected and appointed officials are to be approved automatically while any user that can provide evidence of being active within the discord server or subreddit before the start of the State of Caution can request to be approved and must be accepted unless there is evidence that they intend to commit a criminal offence within SimDemocracy. If a user that has been previously active within SimDemocracy during the past and is not lawfully banned wishes to stand for election, they may direct their call for candidates post directly to the Elections Supervisor if they are unable to post to the subreddit.

(f) Enabling the discord ‘apply to join feature’ (via the Access tab in server settings) in order to filter out any potential raiders. The application may have such questions as the President determines is necessary. Applications shall be reviewed, accepted or denied by the OHS. The OHS shall have the right to use the built-in ‘Interview’ feature to interview any suspicious accounts in their DMs. The OHS may deny an application on grounds only of:

(i) There being reason to believe that the applicant is an alt account.

(ii) There being reason to believe that the applicant is joining for nefarious purposes listed in Article 1, §1.1. of this Act, apart from simply being a new member.

(g) Pausing Direct Messages on the Discord Server.

§2. Article 2, clause §5 of the State of Caution and Emergency Act 2025 shall be amended to say the following:

§5. During the State of Emergency the President of SimDemocracy can authorise any or all of the following decisions:

(a) Denying any new users the ability to join the SimDemocracy discord server for the duration of the State of Emergency by pausing and revoking the links to join the server. Users that there is evidence they have been active within SimDemocracy during the past may apply for an exemption if they want to join the discord server during the State of Emergency.

(b) Restricting the image posting and link embedding permissions for newly arrived users to the discord server, for the duration of the State of Emergency (there may be exceptions decided via a case-by-case basis).

(c) Postponing Voter Identification applications until the conclusion of the State of Emergency.

(d) The subreddit (r/simdemocracy) may be set to private. However, all elected and appointed officials must be automatically granted the ability to view and post within the subreddit. All users that have been active before the start of the State of Emergency can request to be approved and must be accepted unless there is evidence that they intend to commit a criminal offence within SimDemocracy. If a user that has been previously active within SimDemocracy during the past and is not lawfully banned wishes to stand for election, they may direct their call for candidates post directly to the Elections Supervisor if they are unable to post to the subreddit.

(e) Confining users with accounts which have been in the server for up to 4 weeks to a specific area. This can only be done if there is probable cause that the account has committed a crime or is an alternate account. This action must be certified by a court within 48 hours. The account shall only be released after a trial, if there is no certification within 48 hours, or if the state of caution ends.

(f) Enabling the discord ‘apply to join feature’ (via the Access tab in server settings) in order to filter out any potential raiders. The application may have such questions as the President determines is necessary. Applications shall be reviewed, accepted or denied by the OHS. The OHS shall have the right to use the built-in ‘Interview’ feature to interview any suspicious accounts in their DMs. The OHS may deny an application on grounds only of:

(i) There being reason to believe that the applicant is an alt account.

(ii) There being reason to believe that the applicant is joining for nefarious purposes listed in Article 1, §1.1. of this Act, apart from simply being a new member.

(g) Pausing Invites and Direct Messages on the Discord Server.