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Bill: Slander Act.
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: June 2392
Description[?]:
| No-one should be able to publish malicous falsehoods about someone else. If it can be proven false, then the individual has the individual has the right to sue the person/s involved in the spreading of lies about the individual. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: The nation has no laws regarding slander.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:10:42, April 20, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Slander Act. |
| Message | To sue for a falsehood you first must prove its false and its malicous, whats wrong with that? |
| Date | 01:17:42, April 21, 2007 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Slander Act. |
| Message | What is false? Who decides what false is? Why should we conform to that definition of falsity? Example: A fundamentalist Christian says gays are evil and should burn in hell. Can you prove that that's not true? Does that qualify as slander? The fundies say no, the gays say yes. Who wins? |
| Date | 01:14:36, April 24, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Slander Act. |
| Message | exactly, that cant be proven, but it can be proven wither or not person A spent saturday night with a hooker, or weather person B is homosexual, or person C is a rapist. ITs not a bill on peoples interpretations of the allegations (ie the fundamentalists veiws on gays) but the actual allegations themselves. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 200 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics |