Act of Congress Verbally Threatening Act

[1950Minecrafter]

Congress Vote: 4-1-0

A
BILL
To

Establish A Verbally Threatening Act​

The people of Democracy Craft, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “Verbally Threatening Act”.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

2- Verbally Threatening
(1) This will follow the punishments of Assault.
(2) This is active when a player is threatening another player with the use of a gun and/or weapons or through any forms of communication, in order to put them in danger to prompt them to commit an action.
(3) When a player on the street says: "I'll kill you!”, is an example of not verbally threatening another player.

3- Punishment
(1) When the victim has proof, the Police Officers can charge the player who is guilty: 100 dollars.

1950minecrafter

Speaker of Congress​

 

[MessiFG7]

House Vote: 8-1-0
Senate Vote: 1-0-5

A
BILL
To

Extend the current Verbally Threatening Act and law 13.9 Harassment to cover the player's direct messages.

The people of Democracy Craft, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “Communication Extension Act”.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) The Act has been co-sponsored by: Senator awwimnicki

Reasons
(1) More players tend to verbally threaten them through messages rather than pointing a weapon at them or global chat.
(2) These laws should cover harassment or verbal threats in direct messages.

1 - Amending Section 2.2 of the “Verbally Threatening Act”
(1) From:

(2) This is active when a player is threatening a player with a gun to do something. You need to be in danger.

To:

(2) This is active when a player is threatening another player with the use of a gun or through any forms of communication, in order to put them in danger to prompt them to commit an action.

(2) Upon this act being signed into law, Rule 13.2 Verbal Threats will be updated with the new amendment stated in Section 1.1.

2 - Amend Law 13.9 Harassment
(1) From:

A person who uses disorderly behavior to an individual, a group of individuals or on global chat, that may be deemed to a reasonable person as causing harassment, alarm or distress, will be guilty of an offence.
Per Offence: $50-80 Fine + 5 Minutes Jail

To:

A person who uses disorderly behavior to an individual, a group of individuals, through any forms of communication, that may be deemed to a reasonable person as causing harassment, alarm or distress, will be guilty of an offense.
Per Offense: $50-80 Fine + 5 Minutes Jail

 

[HugeBob]

Nay - Private Discord DMs do not fall under Government Jurisdiction, if there is a genuine issue you can block a user or the staff team is capable of handling it. Furthermore the punishments apply in game, and do not prevent a user from engaging in harassment via Discord DMs.

 

[218218Consumer]

Presidential Assent

This bill has been granted presidential assent and is hereby signed into law.

I understand the opposition to the bill, but it was amended to no longer specify discord DMs. Considering that all other laws apply solely to in-game or DC discords despite being stated in general terms, I find that this act's definition of "communication" will also solely apply to areas over which the DC Government has jurisdiction.

 

[SlimeGlitch]

House Vote: 6-1-2
Senate Vote: 5-0-2

A
BILL
To

Amend the Verbally Threatening Act

The people of Democracy Craft, through their elected representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “Verbally Threatening Act".
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act was authored by Sen. Black_ven0m
(4) This Act was proposed by Rep. SlimeGlitch
(5) This Act has department of Justices, Elainathomas29's approval.

2 – Reasons
(1) As off right now, is someone was to threaten someone to do something with a axe, it wouldn’t be protected under the Verbal Threats bill.

3 – Terms

(1) The Verbally threating Act shall be amended as followed:

Change:
3.2 - Verbal Threats
This is active when a player is threatening a player with a gun to do something.
Per Offence: $100 Fine

To:
3.2 - Verbal Threats
This is active when a player is threatening a player with a gun and/or weapons to do something.
Per Offence: $100 Fine

 

[Westray]

Presidential Assent

This bill has been granted assent and is hereby signed into law.

 

[DemonFire256]

House Vote: 9-1-0
Senate Vote: 4-0-1

A
BILL
To

Amend The Verbally Threatening Act

The people of Democracy Craft, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:
​

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “Verbally Threatening Act”.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This bill has been authored by Representative DemonFire256.
(4) The Act has been co-sponsored by: Representative Yeet_Boy

2 - Reasons
(1) At the moment, verbal threats are active only when a player is threatening another player to prompt them to commit an action, not just threatening them about ex. murder, assault etc.
(2) Verbal Threats shouldn’t be the same amount fine as other much more criminal fines (e.g murder)


3 - Sections as needed…
(1) The Verbally Threatening Act shall be amended as followed:
From
13.2 - Verbal Threats
This is active when a player is threatening another player with the use of a gun and/or weapons or through any forms of communication, in order to put them in danger to prompt them to commit an action.
Per Offence: $100 Fine

To
13.2 - Verbal Threats
This is active when a player is threatening another player with the use of any type of weaponry or through any forms of communication in order to put them in danger or prompt them to commit an action.
Per Offense: $60 Fine

 

[LilDigiVert]

Presidential Assent

This bill has been granted assent and is hereby signed into law.