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  • This house, as the U.S., would focus on expanding policy that attempts to combat the supply channels of illegal drugs (e.g. reinforcing border controls, crackdowns on amateur labs) rather than expanding policy that attempts to combat their distribution (e.g. police entrance to areas of drug commerce, online tracking of interactions between dealers and buyers)

    Western Intervarsity 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-05

  • This house, as the IT worker, would expose the security risk to your colleagues at the cost of your job.

    Infoslide

    You are a corporate IT worker with a recently born daughter and a loving partner at home who is a stay-at-home parent. To create a home for your family you recently bought an apartment with a mortgage. You often slack off at work. You frequently kill time playing computer games on an old seemingly abandoned desktop computer in the server room. After dying in Doom you decide to see what you can find on the old computer. You discover that the computer is logged into a database containing the personal information of the company’s millions of customers. Unfortunately, the old computer runs Windows XP and is connected to non-password-protected public wifi for visitors. This poses a critical security risk leaving the data vulnerable to a major leak. Exposing the security risk to your colleagues will cost you your job since you were not supposed to have access to the server room in the first place, much less to play Doom. No security cameras or keycard logs would prove that you ever went to the server room unless you say that you went there.

    SSE Riga Pro-Am VIII · Round 4 · 2024-10-04

  • This house prefers a world where PsychoPass is used in law enforcement.

    Infoslide

    PsychoPass is a system that monitors citizen’s brain biometrics and calculates the ‘Crime Coefficient’ – a number that is supposed to indicate one’s propensity to commit violent crime. The system can monitor how often an individual thinks about committing a violent crime. The Crime Coefficient can increase and decrease - for example, if someone thinks about committing violent crime frequently one day, their Crime Coefficient will go up, but if they do not do so at all the next day, it will decrease. When someone’s Crime Coefficient crosses an accepted threshold, authorities will be alerted and this individual can be apprehended. In addition, police officers’ weapons are equipped with Crime Coefficient scanners which show any target’s Crime Coefficient in real time. For the purposes of the debate, the PsychoPass can only measure propensity to violent crime (rather than any other crimes, or any unrelated thoughts or emotions), and law enforcement cannot fabricate or alter anyone's Crime Coefficient in any way.

    UCLA IV 2024 · Partial Quarterfinals · 2024-09-28

  • This house prefers a world where love is quantifiable.

    Infoslide

    In a world where love is quantifiable, relationships thrive on data-driven insights. Various tools offer a detailed understanding of relationship dynamics, i.e., apps that track interactions and wearable devices that monitor physiological responses. These technologies log conversations and shared activities, enabling partners to evaluate their relationship using concrete data.

    Pakistan Pre-ABP 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-09-27

  • THO the arrest of Telegram's CEO

    Infoslide

    Telegram is a social media and messaging platform which uses an extremely secure encryption network. Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France on November 18. The arrest is part of an ongoing criminal investigation led by French authorities. The inquiry focuses on allegations regarding Telegram’s role in facilitating criminal activities through its platform. Critics claim the platform’s encryption and limited moderation have been exploited for illegal purposes.

    Penn Pre-WUDC 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-09-24

  • THP a world with mood meters

    Infoslide

    A mood meter is a number that can be publicly seen above every single person's head, indicating their mental wellbeing on a scale of 1-10. Mood meters can fluctuate over time but cannot be concealed, hidden, or changed consciously.

    Penn Pre-WUDC 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-09-24

  • This house supports the continued rise of Unexplained Wealth Orders in combating money laundering.

    Infoslide

    Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWO) are tools utilized by governments in Canada and the UK to combat money laundering by placing the onus of proving where the money is from to the person instead of the government proving the money is laundered (Guilty until proven innocent). The government does not have to prove that the accused person committed a crime and these orders are ruled by civil courts. As a result the burden of proof is not beyond reasonable doubt (they 99% chance did it) but reasonable grounds to believe (they probably did it). The government can seize the wealth if the person cannot prove its origin.

    Counterfactual HST 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-09-21

  • This house prefers a world with the Arkangel.

    Infoslide

    'Arkangel' is a futuristic technology which involves implanting a device into a child's brain, allowing parents to monitor their child's location and vital signs in real-time. Additionally, parents can use a tablet to see through the child's eyes, censor disturbing or sensitive images and events, and track their emotional state. The technology also enables parents to set boundaries and restrictions on what the child sees and experiences, effectively controlling their environment.

    Chung Ling Private Debate Championship 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-09-07

  • This house supports major media houses adopting undercover journalism.

    Infoslide

    **‘Undercover journalism’ is a form of reporting in which journalists conceal their identities or true intentions to gather information that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to obtain. This method often involves the journalist posing as someone else, using hidden cameras or recording devices, or gaining access to restricted areas under false pretences.**

    Chung Ling Private Debate Championship 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-09-07

  • This house believes that cyber-vigilantism brings more harm than good.

    Infoslide

    ‘Cyber-vigilantism’ is when people take the law in their own hands on the internet, without seeking help from the legal system. This includes the creation of name-and-shame websites for perpetrators, crowdsourcing and leaking of private information of such individuals etc.

    Chung Ling Private Debate Championship 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-09-07

  • This house would ban social media companies from research and development of large multimodal models.

    Infoslide

    Multimodal models refer to large neural network models like chatGPT, Gemini, etc. that can work with both language and images. Over the past three years, several social media companies have started building them. For e.g., Meta has built the Llama models, X (previously twitter) has built the Grok models. These models tend to often be trained on data collected from the social media, albeit with user consent.

    IUBDC presents Bangladesh Flood Fundraiser 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-08-30

  • This house would choose to stay in the show

    Infoslide

    You are a man in your mid-30s. You work for a job that you love, are married to a woman you love, and have a supportive community of friends. One day, you drive to work, and you accidentally deviate from your typical route, which exposes radio transmissions that comment on your every move. Freaked out, you entered a random building, and saw the backstage of a TV set. You start to become suspicious of everything, including the relationship you have with your wife and friends. When you lashed out at your wife, she mistakenly admits she and every person around you are paid actors and actresses. At this point, the director of the TV show approaches you and explains the situation you are in. From the moment of your birth, you have been the star of a famous and globally-recognized TV show based on your life without your knowledge. There is a group of writers who predetermine every important event in your life. All of the people you've interacted with are paid actors. Your so-called community turns out to merely be a TV set. The director gives you a choice: to stay in the TV show, or experience the outside world for the first time. If you decide to leave, as part of the deal with the director, you must forego all ability to sue or gain compensation from the company, and you are required to rename yourself, change your appearance, and live in a remote community as an average person. If you decide to stay, you must sign a contract that puts you in this job forever.

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-08-27