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Bill: Protection from Untruthful Media Bill.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Democratic Socialists
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2354
Description[?]:
| So that 1- Unfounded and untrue allegations about people are illeagle, and cannot be published in the media. Anything that is detrimental to a persons must have a sound factual base. 2- 'Hate speech' against all persons or communities is not permitted. No Media outlet can publish content that is likely to demonise any persons, or sections of the community and whip up hate and antisocial behavior from the rest of society. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Current: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:24:27, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | We need to protect people from lies! We simply cannot trust the media and groups to simply be honest at all times. If the Media is honest, then this will do nothing, if the media is not honest, then this will stop untrue allegations, and racial hate rants. |
| Date | 17:23:27, February 01, 2007 CET | From |  National Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | We concur. The media is the voice for the people, and must be controlled so that the knowledge of our people does not become stagnant. |
| Date | 20:42:56, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | We are totally in agreement. Unfortunately we notice that the larger party and their satellites try to hold under control the media! |
| Date | 22:09:26, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | So damn true! |
| Date | 23:03:36, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | Even if the bigger parties were going to try and control the media, this bill would limit that! This bill is against the publishing of lies and untruthful information only! By passing this bill it would limit any party trying to take control of the media by only allowing them to publish factual information. |
| Date | 23:22:38, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | The only thing you would fear if you dont pass this bill, is the truth! |
| Date | 02:45:56, February 02, 2007 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | God, that above "debate" is just a giant circle jerk. "Even if the bigger parties were going to try and control the media, this bill would limit that! " Actually it is the smaller parties that are trying to control the media by forcing them conform to the standards of whatever it is that you people stand for. None of the bigger parties have suggested that we establish standards for the free (note: FREE) press to have to fit in with. "By passing this bill it would limit any party trying to take control of the media by only allowing them to publish factual information." What's your definition of truth? Factuality? Can such concepts be established in an objective fashion that doesn't rely on today's political paradigm of the Baltusian social discourse? Aren't such things just human constructs from a modernist world gone insane with its own hubris, arrogance and materialism? "The only thing you would fear if you dont pass this bill, is the truth!" No we fear that small aprties will use the "truth" as a method of establishing control over the media. No one's trying to ban the truth: we're just flooding it out with a series of much more entertaining lies. |
| Date | 13:49:30, February 02, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | If something has a factual base, then it can be reported. If it has no factual base, then it should not be allowed to be published. Its a measure against any person or body. Be it a political party (big or small) corporation or individual, something must have a factual base to be published. |
| Date | 05:26:54, February 03, 2007 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Protection from Untruthful Media Bill. |
| Message | "If something has a factual base, then it can be reported. If it has no factual base, then it should not be allowed to be published." See this is the problem. Who decides what constitutes a "factual" base? Its all well and good to cite the "truth" but as soon as you start to define these concepts, you restrict them and the free press. "something must have a factual base to be published." So no fiction novels any more? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 34 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 66 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real-life quotations may be used in Particracy, but the real-life speaker or author should always be referenced in an OOC (out-of-character) note alongside the quotation. |
| Random quote: "Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." - Niccolo Machiavelli |