Administrative Bans: Andusre, Brototh, ICH, and Altys

[Quebecshire]

Administrative Bans: Andusre, Brototh, ICH, and Altys

Regrettably, due to a recent incident in another region involving several individuals who are also in our server, we are making the following announcement after completing our investigation on the matter. Please read this post in full.

• The League and Concord's off-site community administration team has made the decision to ban the users known as Andusre (Andy), Brototh (a.k.a. Cinema), and The Islamic Country of Honour (ICH) for their involvement in the sharing of an individual's personal information without their consent.
  
• The League and Concord's off-site community administration team has additionally decided to ban Altys for administrative negligence.
  

Several days ago in the Discord server of the region Thaecia (the primary region of those banned), a TikTok featuring a former member of the region was shared. Several users in the chat proceeded to discuss the TikTok's contents and the person it featured, connecting this person to their NS alias which some of them were aware from his usage of it during his time in Thaecia and NationStates which ended in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Over the last several days, we have evaluated all of the evidence surrounding the interaction and have come to the conclusion that the incident took place with intent to mock the user and that once it was shared, his real life and NS personas were extensively confirmed to be of the same person. While several people knew his information from when he was in the region, it is our belief that consent is not continuous/perpetual and is given on a case-by-case basis, and therefore, it was inappropriate to reveal and reiterate the information several years later when another person would not reasonably find it themselves today.

We engaged administrators from Thaecia in a discussion about this topic, at times including Syberis from the New Pacific Order (NPO) community. Their reaction on individual levels and as administrators was, overall, deeply unsatisfactory and at times contained levels of deflection, insinuation that our concerns were unreasonable and condescending, and was otherwise not productive to a necessary extent. Considering the closeness of our communities, we have approached this issue with due diligence and do not feel this has been addressed properly. We cannot in good conscience associate with a community that has allowed this incident to transpire and have banned the relevant individuals from out platform as mentioned above.

Our community has experienced issues with administrative understanding and negligence in the past. As a result of this, we take these matters very seriously, both on our own platforms and in the communities we associate with and play NationStates alongside. These decisions were not made lightly and were made to the best of our ability after reviewing all available evidence and its context. 

Questions and concerns can be posted in this thread, or in the case of sensitive subjects of this issue, can be directed privately to an administrator. For a list of rules and staff, please consult our Community Guidelines.

- The League & Concord's Community Administration and Moderation Teams