SB 115-23 Do Not Contact Registry Act (Tabled)

[LAKISYLVANIA]

DO NOT CONTACT REGISTRY ACT

1. Any registered voter in Atlasia who desires to not be contacted via private message by federal political campaigns with candidate or election advertisements may submit their name to the Attorney General who shall be tasked with creating and maintaining a Do Not Contact Registry.

2. Such Registry shall be publicly posted and stickied in the Atlas Fantasy Elections thread.

3. Any voter on the Registry who is contacted in violation of this act may report such violation to the Attorney General who shall notify the violator of the violation.

4. Any person who sends a private messages in violation of this act after having been notified not to do so by the Attorney General shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1,000 per violation.

5. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days from the date of passage.

Authorship Statement: This bill was not written with the assistance of ChatGPT or other A.I.

Sponsor: WM

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

We used to have these in the periods between 2008 and 2013 when active deregistration was not allowed (the only way off the rolls was to fall off from missing elections).

Deregistration was brought back and these were abolished, because they are impractical and nearly impossible to enforce.

Some problems:

1. The DoJ does not have the ability to enforce a monetary fine on players
2. This would require trial and conviction (not an easy process as has been demonstrated)
3. This is NPC tier punishment for a player violation.
4. The only real penalties for players are office and voting ban in this game.
5. This seems to only affect Atlas PMs.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Some problems:

1. The DoJ does not have the ability to enforce a monetary fine on players
2. This would require trial and conviction (not an easy process as has been demonstrated)
3. This is NPC tier punishment for a player violation.
4. The only real penalties for players are office and voting ban in this game.
5. This seems to only affect Atlas PMs.

Exactly.

If you don't want a PM being sent to you, than don't register.

Also NPC tier violations, i'm gladly able to pay hundreds of inexisting 1000 dollar fines.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

I suggest a tabling vote. Motion to table this act, i'll put up a vote after 72 hours of mandatory debating has passed (in case someone object).

[Utah Neolib]

This sounds like a good idea in theory but I don’t think the SOFE or registrar General wants to maintain this list.

[Joseph Cao]

With the additional problem that most people who would go to the trouble of submitting their names to this list are active enough that nobody contacts them via PM anyway.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Motion to table.

24 hours to object.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Bill is tabled

[Joseph Cao]

Don't you need someone to second the motion to table before it's acted on?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Sorry. I'll second the motion to table, and a vote on the motion is now open. Senators, please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Aye

[Sirius_]

Aye

[West_Midlander]

Present

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Aye

[Utah Neolib]

Aye

[PPT Spiral]

Aye

[nerd73]

Aye