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Bill: Radio and TV act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Workers Union
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: September 2360
Description[?]:
| With "Big Brothers Watching" and "I'm overpaid get me out of here", ruining the brain cells of the impressionable young, we feel that the current tv and radio acts are helping the private companies make drivel and we propose that all radio and tv stations are independent non profit making companies that recieve state subsidises to help make much better programs for everyone. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are owned by the state.
Proposed: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: All television stations are owned by the state.
Proposed: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:54:33, February 13, 2007 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | The NCP fears too much government intervention in the media. We must maintain freedom of speech. |
| Date | 17:09:44, February 14, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Workers Union | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | We think the right honourable member is having a bit of a joke. There isn't freedom of speech as the private owned companies that run the TV and Radio stations are very biased towards the right wing parties. |
| Date | 19:41:24, February 14, 2007 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | What about the ones run by Democratic Workers Councils? |
| Date | 23:29:25, February 14, 2007 CET | From | Absolutist Party | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | Or the liberal enemies of the AP? You come up with far too much blatent lies and propaganda. |
| Date | 23:52:04, February 14, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | I suspect that the SWU believes that the LPI is a 'right-wing' party. This, of course, is a shameful conflation of liberalism and absolutism, which are distinct political movements. |
| Date | 23:53:30, February 14, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | Of course, one suspects that what the SWU believes to be 'free speech' is 'all speech which happens to agree with the SWU'. |
| Date | 04:25:31, February 15, 2007 CET | From | New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | You are avowedly capitalist and include "liberal" in your party name. And you clearly have a classical-liberal bent. That's right wing. |
| Date | 08:50:39, February 15, 2007 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | Classical liberalism is right wing? I'm sure that noted Tory, Adam Smith would agree. |
| Date | 18:42:55, February 15, 2007 CET | From | Ikradone Nationalsozialistische Partei | To | Debating the Radio and TV act |
| Message | The INSP scoffs at the parties using an outdated, blatantly false, and ignorant labels of "left" and "right." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 64 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 500 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 35 |
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