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Basic Play

  • Everyone starts with 3 cards
  • Initial play is Draw 1, Play 1; 1 Goal to start.
  • Anyone can join at any time

4 Types of Cards:

Rules (Policy changes that affect the state of play)

  • Title
  • Sub-title
  • Description

Keepers (Characters/Actors/ Items that are needed to achieve Goals)

  • Name

Actions (events that occur in one play round, can affect anyone in the game or the person playing the Action)

  • Title
  • Description

Goals (How to win the game, usually requires some combination of Keepers to be held by the player)

  • Name
  • Keepers to achieve goal

Resources

Card Template: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/107967/fluxx-custom-card-template

Rules

  • Merger consolidation (only 1 keeper is needed to win)
  • Grid lock (reset to basic rules)
  • Restoring a quorum (draw 2, play 2)
  • Government requires encrypted back doors (draw 1, discard 4)
  • Power outage (all technology keepers can't be used)
  • Technical solution to a social problem (only technology keepers can be used)
  • Power restored
  • Recent terrorist attack (goals of privacy, legislative win, policy change cannot be met while this rule is in play)
  • Thwart the Surveillance Agencies (If Full disk encryption is on the table, anyone can use it to win)

Keepers

  • Countries/Regulators (USA, China, India, EU, FCC)
  • IG bodies (ICANN, IETF)
  • Wire tapping
  • Civil Society
  • Advocacy
  • Hackers
  • Bot net
  • UN
  • File Comments
  • High powered lawyer
  • RFC
  • Legal brief
  • Corporate lobbyist
  • Money
  • Tech Company
  • Lawsuit
  • Surveillance Agencies (NSA, GHCQ)
  • Block chain
  • RIAA
  • ISPs
  • Political Activity
  • Progressive Hosting Organization
  • Full Disk Encryption
  • Subpoena

Actions

  • Congress changes hands (reset the rules?)
  • Boss shows up, edits everything (discard half of one players hand)
  • Zero Day (take 1 card from up to half the players)
  • Data breach (one player has to show their hand)
  • Ransomware (take all but 1 of someone's cards)
  • China bans anonymous posting (all players show keepers in their hands)
  • GPDR goes into effect …(only need 1 keeper to meet privacy goal)
  • Zero rating
  • Classified information leaked
  • Build an Alliance (Count the number of players in the game (including yourself). Draw enough cards to give 1 card to each player, and then distribute them evenly amongst all the players. You decide who gets what.)
  • Share the Wealth (Gather up all the keepers on the table. Shuffle them together, then deal them out,giving the first card to yourself. Everyone will probably end up with a different number of Keepers in play than they started with.)
  • Today’s Special (Set your hand aside and draw 3 cards. If today is your birthday, play all 3 cards. If today is a holiday or special anniversary, play 2 of the cards. If it’s just another day, play only 1 card. Discard the remainder.)
  • Rules Reset (Reset to Basic Rules. Discard all new rule cards, and leave only the basic rules in play. Do not discard the current Goal.)
  • Sneakernet. Everyone chooses one card to pass to the left. If your hand is empty, you just receive a card (don’t have to draw or pass.)

Goals

  • New TLDs released (ICANN + … )
  • Internet Blackout (Political Activity + Any Country + ISPs)
  • Reverse an Internet Shutdown (Civil Society + Advocacy + UN)
  • Net neutrality (FCC + EU + Any non-US, non-EU country)
  • Win a Scotus Case (high power lawyer + legal brief + USA)
  • New protocol (IETF + RFC)
  • Policy change (advocacy + civil society )
  • Alliance / Coalition ( Tech Company + Civil Society)
  • Regulatory win (file Comments + high power lawyer)
  • Legislative victory (lobbyist + money)
  • Privacy (EU + Lawsuit)
  • Surveil all the things (NSA, GCHQ, China)
  • Dark web (block chain + hackers)
  • Decentralized web (block chain + p2p)
  • DRM (RIAA + money)
  • Universal Human Rights ( )
  • Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP) (Tech company + Hackers)
  • Government Hacking (Hackers + surveillance agencies)
  • Zero Knowledge Server (Full Disk Encryption + Progressive Hosting Org)
  • Thwart the FBI (Full Disk Encryption + Progressive Hosting Org + Subpoena)

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License:MIT License