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Bill: Media Policies
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Labour Party of Cobura
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: March 2375
Description[?]:
| Will split if you want me too |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Internet regulations.
Old value:: The government has no position on who may use or what is published on the internet.
Current: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Proposed: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Article 2
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 laws against the publication of false information, hate speech, and subversive anti-government material.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:05:09, March 15, 2007 CET | From |  Forward Cobura | To | Debating the Media Policies |
| Message | 1. Information is free, but over and above this is the right to individual privacy, regardless of the moral judgments of certain people. 2. Cobura should be a state where freedom of speech is absolute. |
| Date | 18:20:40, March 15, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Media Policies |
| Message | 1. Child abuse is totally and utterly evil, we must protect children from immoral expolitation and sexual abuse for the pleasure of preverts. 2.But publishing lies about people, parties and organisations is not freedom of inormation, it is mis-information and against the spirit of free speech, free expression and freedom of information and the right to know. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 248 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 252 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players who deliberately attempt to present a misleading picture of the nation's current RP laws will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." - William Proxmire |