The Kea
25-05-2005, 04:41
Government Search
Despite the government ban on unapproved web sites, people are still getting around it by using search engines.
Validity: Nations that have restricted internet use
[option]The minister of Public Information, @@RANDOMNAME@@, demands that you increase control. "If they're getting passed with search engines, then just ban them. It will be so much easier to just restrict a few sites, rather than the entire internet. And we should also increase the punishments to discourage people from even trying."
[effect]search engines have been banned in an effort to prevent the viewing of unauthorised sites
[stats]civil rights decrease, number of laws increase, law & order funding increases, happiness decreases
[option]"We can't allow that!" howls @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of the last civil rights activists on the loose. "We must make the internet completely free, including the removal of all these ridiculous laws against piracy, hackers, and viruses. Only then will we have true order."
[effect]the internet is filled with hackers, spammers, viruses, and piracy
[stats]civil rights increase, number of laws decrease, government size decreases, happiness decreases
[option]Another opinion is expressed by a particularly loud man on the street, who is immediately marched away to an undisclosed location. "That would be absurd! There would be no way for me to get on the internet without being attacked by a virus or something. Just let us look at the sites we want."
[effect]@@NAME@@ is well known for its internet zombies
[stats]civil rights increase, government size decreases, number of laws decrease, happiness increases
[option]"I have thought of a more diplomatic approach to this problem," states @@RANDOMNAME@@, another of those pesky newspaper columnists.
"If we just contract with the popular search engine Googol™ to remove all sites that we don't like from their databases, then ban all other search engines, most people won't know the difference, and everyone will be happy. Then we can steal Googol's™ software and make our own search engine so we won't have to pay liscensing."
[effect]citizens are only allowed to use a special government search engine
[stats]government size increases, civil rights decrease
[option]A person dressed in chain mail has thought up a new method of torture. "Who needs the internet? It justs wastes time that could be going into building castles. We should just ban it and make everyone work 10 hours a week constructing replicas of medieval stone buildings so they won't have time to notice that they can't surf the web anymore."
[effect]the internet is banned, but citizens must work 10 hours a week building castles, so they can't organize protests
[stats]happiness implodes, civil rights collapse, economy increases, number of law increase
China actually did the second to last option, and called it http://www.accoona.com/. By the way, I thought that calling it Googol™ might not get through; does anyone have another idea?
Despite the government ban on unapproved web sites, people are still getting around it by using search engines.
Validity: Nations that have restricted internet use
[option]The minister of Public Information, @@RANDOMNAME@@, demands that you increase control. "If they're getting passed with search engines, then just ban them. It will be so much easier to just restrict a few sites, rather than the entire internet. And we should also increase the punishments to discourage people from even trying."
[effect]search engines have been banned in an effort to prevent the viewing of unauthorised sites
[stats]civil rights decrease, number of laws increase, law & order funding increases, happiness decreases
[option]"We can't allow that!" howls @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of the last civil rights activists on the loose. "We must make the internet completely free, including the removal of all these ridiculous laws against piracy, hackers, and viruses. Only then will we have true order."
[effect]the internet is filled with hackers, spammers, viruses, and piracy
[stats]civil rights increase, number of laws decrease, government size decreases, happiness decreases
[option]Another opinion is expressed by a particularly loud man on the street, who is immediately marched away to an undisclosed location. "That would be absurd! There would be no way for me to get on the internet without being attacked by a virus or something. Just let us look at the sites we want."
[effect]@@NAME@@ is well known for its internet zombies
[stats]civil rights increase, government size decreases, number of laws decrease, happiness increases
[option]"I have thought of a more diplomatic approach to this problem," states @@RANDOMNAME@@, another of those pesky newspaper columnists.
"If we just contract with the popular search engine Googol™ to remove all sites that we don't like from their databases, then ban all other search engines, most people won't know the difference, and everyone will be happy. Then we can steal Googol's™ software and make our own search engine so we won't have to pay liscensing."
[effect]citizens are only allowed to use a special government search engine
[stats]government size increases, civil rights decrease
[option]A person dressed in chain mail has thought up a new method of torture. "Who needs the internet? It justs wastes time that could be going into building castles. We should just ban it and make everyone work 10 hours a week constructing replicas of medieval stone buildings so they won't have time to notice that they can't surf the web anymore."
[effect]the internet is banned, but citizens must work 10 hours a week building castles, so they can't organize protests
[stats]happiness implodes, civil rights collapse, economy increases, number of law increase
China actually did the second to last option, and called it http://www.accoona.com/. By the way, I thought that calling it Googol™ might not get through; does anyone have another idea?