There is accordingly no issue of the kind you indicate.
Just saving this for posterity, I can't believe you sincerely believe there's no issue with citizens signing an oath before they have access to the laws of the region.
It's a Monty Python skit waiting to be written.
Moreover, while she linked to the Law Book, she made no commitment that it would remain open in perpetuity. Nowhere did it require that a re-masking on our forums should result in an external announcement.
She literally said it was a technical oversight that had gone unreported (a lie, I'll note - I reported it many a time prior to that) and that Balder was one of the most open regions in NS. Her superlatives most certainly constitute an ongoing commitment to government transparency in Balder which was reversed quietly the moment you found out about it.
the Statsminister speaks for Balder
You mean I read five years of Rachel's posts for no reason!?
I'd rather you have coughed tuberculosis at me.
So just to clarify, when the Monarch was going around talking about how open and crap, Balder is - she was doing so with no more authority than the court parakeet, and effectively blowing smoke up our asses? And if NES and other future Monarchs go around speaking how open their region is, and making other proclamations about government policy - we should attribute zero legitimacy to these remarks?
under the legal position in February 2017 and the legal position that exists today, the Statsminister speaks for Balder. We have never attempted to hide that reality.
Well actually you do attempt to withhold information regarding the organization of Balder: the constitution that outlines the role of the Statsminister versus the Monarch is not public. And you've venomously defended not publicly releasing this information. That's the whole point of this conversation.
Balder might have the most stringent restrictions on access to official areas among the GCRs, but plenty other GCRs and other major regions impose other kinds of restrictions on access to information. T
Access of information is limited in all GCRs, most have levels of privacy to their legislatures - for instance.
But Balder is at the bottom of the gradient. The very bottom, below self-identifying dictatorships. You provide access to neither your laws nor legislative discussions nor cabinet discussions.
In terms of government transparency, no GCR is as opaque as Balder and that, I personally consider a black mark to its claim of being democratic.
There is no reason whatsoever for linking these two processes
The link was made because you said the public had no business with the affairs of Balder's government. A principle you contradict routinely on a selective, ad hoc basis for the sake of publicity.
You will learn more accurate information about Balder from what I say than you will from Unibot's conspiracy theories.
It's not a conspiracy "theory" when you've spelled out a confirmation of everything I've said with thrice as many words as necessary.
Given this lack of trust for my words, I am sure you will understand why Balder does not trust our enemies to have access to our official areas in the name of "transparency". For any region, there are inevitably reasonable trade-offs between total transparency and the interests and security of the region.
There is no trade-off here, no security vulnerability. You're protecting your government's image, not the security of the region. TRR/TNP/TSP/TEP/NPO et. al. aren't less safe because they share the text of their laws with residents and the public at large. Indeed, most regions use the opportunity to remind residents of their legal responsibilities.
Onder Kelkia wrote:We have discussed the possibility of using dispatches to provide an array of additional information, including the Basic Laws, in the not too distant past, and it is possible that we might look at publishing laws in dispatches for promotional purposes in the same way as other on-site dispatches in the future.
So now you're shifting your defense back to the earlier "it's a technical oversight" argument, rather than standing exclusively on the principle that the public should not be able to see your laws. We're supposed to believe that the only reason why Balder has been internally conflicted over the promulgation of its own laws for the past four years is because its Prime Minister hadn't discovered Dispatches yet!?
TRR had a public Law Index dispatch in Jan 2015, I know because I created it. Simultaneously, Balder closed its legal index to the public - reacting to a lecture that had been done on Free Speech in the GCRs.