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Bill: IP Media Regulatory Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperialist Party
Status[?]: passed
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: July 2391
Description[?]:
| The present practice of government-subsidized independent stations is expensive and inefficient. We should cut out the middleman, and just have the state run television statements. State-run television will ensure a number of things: Firstly, even if TV stations don't have profit motives, they will still have ideological and other motives. Only a state-run enterprise - operated at an arms length from the government - can provide value-free news coverage (private for-profit news will be driven by advertisers). Secondly, it will ensure the provision of public goods through television. We can improve education, promote high culture, and regulate violence sexism and misogyny on the air - engineering better citizens. It is the government that represents the people, and so surely the state is the best entity to ensure that television is run in order to maximize social returns, not private returns. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: All television stations are owned by the state.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:26:32, April 18, 2007 CET | From |  Federation Under Crazy Killers -- United | To | Debating the IP Media Regulatory Act |
| Message | this is retarded |
| Date | 04:39:31, April 18, 2007 CET | From | Marxist Peoples Party | To | Debating the IP Media Regulatory Act |
| Message | While I'm wary about concentrating power in the hands of the state that is not firmly in the hands of the workers, I will support this as it's a step in the right direction |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 364 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 163 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 74 |
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