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I have submitted a UN proposal for free speech.

DESIRING an improvement in free speech in every UN country.

1. DEFINES 'dangerous speech' as any statement which will readily incite mass violence.
2. MANDATES a government does not have the ability to censor speech that is not considered dangerous speech.
3. MANDATES a government may not censor ideas regardless of the presence, or lack thereof, of dangerous speech.
4. DEFINES 'individual case' as any one incident regardless of a larger incident.
5. AUTHORISES the use of fines in no excess of $20,500,000 US per individual case of government-mandated censorship.
6. DEFINES 'peaceful group' as any group that uses ideas which do not use dangerous speech to incite violence.
7. AUTHORISES the use of fines in no excess of $500,000,000 US per individual case of censorship of any peaceful political group.
8. STRONGLY URGES the expansion of free speech.
9. The above act can not be interprited as infringing on the right of a government to enforce slander and/or libel.

Please vote for it. If not, please tell me how I can make it better.

There is no such thing as the USD. Real Life reference, illegal

More importantly, isn't this already covered?

More importantly, isn't this already covered?

I wouldn't be surprised, but I keep forgetting to refresh on the Freedom of choice/conscience and a few other resolutions that might be relevant.

Always avoid exact dollar terms. Your second one is about the same as Darsomir's GDP the last time I checked.

My question is: Who will collect the fines and where will they be spent?

As this opens the door to fraud and abuse of this fine thing. As we have funds collected that have no end use as there is nobody to even collect them let alone set where they shall be used.

Thus before you destroy a nation by fining them more than they can pay; you need to consider what you will do with both,, nation destroyed and money that ain't there..

Also this so called free speech is fine but when it invades the privacy of others then it becomes a problem. Thus it's up the the government to keep the peace and see to it that all citizens rights are upheld. Only way to do this is with rules of order to say where one can speak and can't speak.. thus we don't say what they can or can't say just where, when, and to whom they may say whatever.

All human beings have the right to express themselves through speech and through the media without any interference.
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'Freedom of Conscience' (resolution #115) has already addressed your concerns.

Mathieu Vergniaud
Deputy Speaker to the UN

2006?

*phew*, we'll only have to wait seventy five years to implement it...

this takes those to another level. the game would collect the fines. the reason I used usd is because the game uses it. just check nseconomy if you don't believe me.

this takes those to another level. the game would collect the fines. the reason I used usd is because the game uses it. just check nseconomy if you don't believe me.
NSEconomy isn't part of the game, though. It's unofficial.

So, what you mean to say is that you would rather have it deleted on game mechanics, rather than on RL referencing or duplication?

(All these terms are explained in the proposal rules.)

this takes those to another level. the game would collect the fines. the reason I used usd is because the game uses it. just check nseconomy if you don't believe me.

NSEconomy's use of it is generally not accepted as a claim overruling the RL reference. Part of the problem is NSEconomy is a purely gameplay spreadsheet and ignores things from declared static exchange rates, setting currency to the gold/silver/etc standard, or a variety of other ways to deal with exchange rates.

I could get into a lot more detail of things that effect exchange rate, but lets move on.

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Even if it were legal, there are MANY other issues. For a third world nation, 20 million is extraordinarily expensive (possibly equivelent to a few billion or MORE in more industrialized nations). If you said "20 million of your local currency", that would be much more effective.

There are a LOT more problems with the proposal, but I'll get to them in good time.

But I thought that USD (Or some other standard) was used in a country's RSS feed from NS (official). Correct me if im wrong.

But I thought that USD (Or some other standard) was used in a country's RSS feed from NS (official). Correct me if im wrong.
You are wrong. (http://nationstates.net/cgi-bin/nationdata.cgi/nation=kendradesh)

I second that, you are wrong!