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Bill: Free Speech Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Left Alliance
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 2422
Description[?]:
| To remove the potential for government to compromise free speech we demand that this bill is finally passed. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information, hate speech, and subversive anti-government material.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
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 | 16:03:16, June 29, 2007 CET | From | National Meritocratic Party | To | Debating the Free Speech Act |
| Message | The proposed alteration is an improvement to the law but less than ideal. "hate speech" is an entirely subjective term. Who is to say what is hateful and what is harmless? The government? If so then a law that censores government-defined "hate speech" is simply a tool to allow and justify discriminatory and unfair practices by the government. We believe that the law should only prohibit verifiably false information, anything else is unfair, open to explitation and unscientific, and as a result we must vote against this bill. |
| Date | 16:06:53, June 29, 2007 CET | From | National Meritocratic Party | To | Debating the Free Speech Act |
| Message | We would also like to make clear that in the event of this bill being defeated, we would welcome, fully support and vote in favour of a bill that only prohibits the publication of false information, but we feel that there should be no compromise on this important issue. |
| Date | 18:59:10, June 30, 2007 CET | From | National Meritocratic Party | To | Debating the Free Speech Act |
| Message | After giving this bill further consideration, we have decided to support this bill on the grounds that it represents an improvement to the current legislation. However, we will introduce a new bill at some point in the future to propose the removal of any reference to the highly subjective topic of "hate speech". |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 140 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 160 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Bill descriptions must be in English, or at least include a full English translation. Bill titles may appear in a language that is appropriate to the nation and are not required to be translated into English. |
| Random quote: "Political correctness is just tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston |