NationStates Jolt Archive

Less Advertisments
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.


Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Palixia

Description: I. Pop-ups
ASSUMING that pop-ups can lead 'hackers' into stealing personal information from people's computers and the fact that they are an annoyance the United Nations should put a ban on all pop-ups on computers.

PUTTING into effect that if a sender of pop-ups is caught they be dealt by the country in which they are a citizen of and have a recommended 30 day prison sentence but the countries government may deal with the person however they please.

ALSO assuming that hackers could still reach into secret files through pop-ups that makers of computers also put a system sufficiently secured to prevent against the possible intrusion of hackers or other unauthorized access.

If made into a resolution, this will block all pop-ups from UN nations

II. Commercials
ADVERTISMENTS are a common annoyance that people have to deal with each day but also they help people make money and give employment to people so to make an equal appreciation for both side commercials should only be run during a certain time of day that the country picks so the people don’t have to deal with advertisements 24 hours a day also giving manufacturing business employees and money.

If made into a resolution, this will stop as much advertisement as their is from UN nations

Voting Ends: Wed Aug 31 2005

Yes or No

The Ultimate Pop-up blocker.

Many pop-ups are perfectly legitimate advertising - still others are nothing to do with advertising and are integral parts of many websites. We are not in favour of banning advertisments of any kind from websites if the site owner has agreed to their presence there and they do nothing sinister - any other policy is a restriction of freedom of expression.

As to banning advertisments at certain times of day - how on earth do you expect that to work with billboards and other physical entities (as opposed to TV ads etc)? And again, this is an undue restriction of freedom of expression. If you don't like ads on commercial TV channels, you're free not to watch them, or to get your government to set up publicly funded ad-free broadcasting.

No. Too many reasons to explain with my rather lack of time available right now

Pop-ups are too easy to be dealt with by individual computer users to validate UN involvement, I'm not playing the national soverignty card here, I'm just saying it doesn't need to be done.

If you find a pop up too annoying you should just find out who is sending them and assassinate them. Otherwise don't bother anyone, give out pop up blockers to your citizens. This violates my strangeness factor. Oh, and personal freedom and expression, don't forget that.

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I'd play my National Sovereignty card too but I'm
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Bob Flibble
UN Representative

My country profile in NS Wiki says there's no commercials on radio yet and had only just started on TV last year, and there's MBC, the state broadcaster, with no advertisments whatsoever. So there is need for others, but there's one similar to that in use in my country. By the way on MBC, In-vision announcers still exist.

FEWER

Whilst annoying, pop-us as a form of advertising should be protected by free speech provisions, however annoying the pop-ups are (and I concede, they are infuriating).

Leonard Otterby
Ambassador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.

Long live prolifically advertising Compadria!

Ok, now that I do have time:

Advertisements are a rather vital component of the world - and all forms of advertising, so long as they are not endangering the health or safety of public, shoud (IMO) be protected - as infuriating and frustrating as it may be. Many popular websites are sustained by advertising - including popups (just as most TV and radio stations are sustained by commercials). Further, advertisements (in particular, online advertisements) help raise awareness of many companies and products that are on the market where the average person would not have access to this information - thus allowing the "little guy" to actually exist.

Basically, this is a poorly thought out idea that fails to address the most crucial considerations and reasons that advertisements exist: they are crucial for the sites or stations that they are placed in to run and they are crucial for new businesses to raise awareness. As such, this resolution is completely and fully unsupportable.

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Spyware should (if it isn't already) be illegal. You are depositing data onto a person's computer that transmits personal and private data to the owner. I don't care what your purpose is (or what research you are conducting), this sort of thing should not be permitted without the consent of the user. Similar material programs (like club cards) have it as part of the contract that you sign when to become a member. You get cheaper groceries, they get more statistical info about you.

As far as I'm concerned, I would classify spyware along with viruses and worms as "malicious computer programs" Its use as a weapon against consumers makes it so.