NationStates Jolt Archive

The computer act is as follows:

1. Computer access

a) All people(s) under the age of 21 must be entitled to free Internet access.
b) Education is a matter. As with the above, retired people(s) should have free access to :
a) A computer and/or the internet
b) A computer class as tutored by a qualifed person(s)
c) All schools MUST have at least 10 computers, and at least halve should have an internet connection.

2. Programming

a) All people(s) in education MUST be taught at least 1 language.
b) At least 1/10 of the population should be a programmer (either full-time, part-time, a hobby or a known intelligence)

3. Web Browsers

All web browsers should have, as a guideline, the following:

a) Tabs
b) Add-ons
c) A built-in search engine, as chosen by the World Assembly
d) A wiki explaining either
a) The browser
or
b) The internet

4. Software

Every educational and/or commercial computer MUST have:

a) A word processor
b) A spreadsheet program
c) A presentation program

5. Websites
All websites, sitemaps and webpages must have the thumbs-up from:

a) The World Assembly
b) The editor's home country's parliment

This text as written by Herprocoproeco.

*Yawn* I just get to bed and I get kicked out to deal with this... *grumble, grumble*

Alright, what do we have here?

The computer act is as follows:

1. Computer access

a) All people(s) under the age of 21 must be entitled to free Internet access.
b) Education is a matter. As with the above, retired people(s) should have free access to :
a) A computer and/or the internet
b) A computer class as tutored by a qualifed person(s)
c) All schools MUST have at least 10 computers, and at least halve should have an internet connection.

I... believe my Mas... predecessor would have opposed this. What of nations not advanced enough to have computers? Why the humanocentric... Yay! Got it right! ...age?

2. Programming

a) All people(s) in education MUST be taught at least 1 language.
b) At least 1/10 of the population should be a programmer (either full-time, part-time, a hobby or a known intelligence)

Um, I think mandating what jobs the people of my homeland can take is definitely something we'd oppose.

3. Web Browsers

All web browsers should have, as a guideline, the following:

a) Tabs
b) Add-ons
c) A built-in search engine, as chosen by the World Assembly
d) A wiki explaining either
a) The browser
or
b) The internet

What's a wiki? We don't have one of those back in the Empire. Only the Imperial Online Encyclopedias. Also, is all of this actually necessary?

4. Software

Every educational and/or commercial computer MUST have:

a) A word processor
b) A spreadsheet program
c) A presentation program

5. Websites
All websites, sitemaps and webpages must have the thumbs-up from:

a) The World Assembly
b) The editor's home country's parliment

My homeland doesn't have a parliment. Also, does this mean that the Assembly must approve porn sites? I, um, don't think that the diplomats really want to look over trillions of porn sites when they could be deciding health issues. Or what flavor of ice cream to get.

Note to self: Have vanilla ice cream delivered. There!

And I don't, er, think this is necessary for the assembly to look at. I'm pretty sure there are more important issues.

Temporary Diplomat Asuka Felna

a) All people(s) under the age of 21 must be entitled to free Internet access.

Not that I'm instinctively against giving people goodies, but why?? And conversely, if we're going to be doling out free Internet, why limit it to some arbitrary age?

c) All schools MUST have at least 10 computers, and at least halve should have an internet connection.

What about those with, say, less than 10 students, such as those found in rural areas?


5. Websites
All websites, sitemaps and webpages must have the thumbs-up from:

a) The World Assembly
b) The editor's home country's parliment

This text as written by Herprocoproeco.

The entire content of the Internet has to be approved by the national legislature and the World Assembly? How's that even going to be possible? We'd be here 24/7 arguing over whether emogurl_3499's latest blog post should be allowed and all of us would be seeing therapists for the psychological trauma within the week.

The Peoples of Sasquatchewain feel no need to explain their rejection of this proposal.

The proposal does appear far too specific. The WA should not have a right to control computer education like this. However, it is feasible to ban state censorship on media, so try that as a primary subject for your text.

while we in Axmanland have a strong and thriving IT sector but feel such matters are purely national in scope and so cannot support this proposal

Ambassador Lyiquin read the proposal and read it again then laughed "You can not be serious

5. Websites
All websites, sitemaps and webpages must have the thumbs-up from:

a) The World Assembly
b) The editor's home country's parliment


My people would never accept what amounts to censorship by my government let alone and foreign authority. Also do you have any idea just how many websites there are out there? Because I don't and my parliament has far better things to do with it's time the plough though the vast quantities of sites out there with more appearing hourly.

Also why on this earth should my nation free speech be controlled by other nations who's moral standards may differ greatly."

http://test256.free.fr/UN%20Cards/pastetech.jpg

ie, nations who haven't developed far enough to have the internet...

This proposal attempts to covertly, or unknowing create another thick layer of bureaucracy we don't need. I'm not trying to assume bad faith on the part of the author of this proposal, but seeing as there are more important pieces of legislation to deal with compared to some approval list this bill is proposing, Arbores Canadia fully opposes this proposal

What most nations fail to realize is that the World Assembly is not a legislative body for the world. The WA is an organization dedicated to protecting the basic needs and rights of people. This sounds like a congressional bill. Steelternia does not support it.

What most nations fail to realize is that the World Assembly is not a legislative body for the world.

Actually the WA is a legislative body for the world, but I can't see any good reason why it should legislate about this. I especially can't see any good reason why it should try to micromanage things the way this suggests.