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By the way, thanks to Roavin for the idea!

Idea	Status	Notes
Clarifying who can be recalled	Being worked on by Jebediah	Discussion on Discord
Updating definition of blackmail in the Criminal Code to be "IC-clean"	Open	The request
Unifying confidentiality rules	Open	The request
Split definition of Espionage in the Criminal Code	Open	The request
Review how we deal with conduct violations	Open	The request
Defining conspiracy to commit a crime as separate from the crime itself in the Criminal Code	Open	The request
Counting crimes committed in allied regions as crimes here in the Criminal Code	Open	The request

(This post was last modified: 01-25-2021, 09:06 PM by Purple Hyacinth.)

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The Criminal Code could use some work:

• Update the definition of blackmail to be "IC-clean". I don't think the word "player" should be used at all; it makes it look like it could be referring to the RL persons controlling the nation rather than the in-universe persona, even though the latter is certainly the case. As an example, threatening to reveal an attempt to coup a region if the other person didn't support one's bill is blackmail and punishable by our laws. However, threatening to release, say, nudes in exchange for support in the Assembly is a moderation issue, often a RL crime, and should be handled by our moderators rather than our in-universe laws.
  
• Taking the haphazard confidentiality rules in several places (CC, JA, Charter at least) and bringing that together in a cogent fashion.
  
• Split our definition of Espionage to differentiate between the crime of obtaining or attempting to obtain information for nefarious purposes, and the crime of actually distributing information that one isn't authorized to distribute (no matter if obtained by Espionage or priviledge)
  
• Add sentencing guidelines
  
• Review how we want to deal with conduct violations. If somebody flames on the RMB and gets knocked by NS mods, but wasn't otherwise troubling to the region, that on its own could be grounds to be indicted, convicted, and banjected.
  
• Consider whether we want to explicitly define conspiracy to commit a crime as separate from the act of the crime
  
• Consider whether we want certain acts committed in an allied region to count as a crime here, and how.
  

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Clarifying who can be recalled Open

Can I have this redirected to the forum thread over [Discussion] Clarifying who can be recalled (tspforums.xyz) here?

(This post was last modified: 11-26-2020, 08:06 PM by Jebediah.)

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The Python is now working on sentencing guidelines.

I have been things

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