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Bill: Free Speech Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Maroon Party
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: August 2092
Description[?]:
| In a free society, if I hate you, I have the right to say so. You have the right to walk away, express a different opinion, etc., but you do not have the right to censor me because you consider what I am saying to be offensive, any more than I have the right to censor you because you disagree with me politically in an offensive way or because I find your favorite sports team offensive. |
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 and hate speech.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
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 | 15:35:34, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Free Speech Act |
| Message | For the nay voters, may I ask if there's any justification for banning nonviolent hate speech? And if that same justification couldn't be used to completely shut down free discourse in our nation, since most disagreements have a level of tension that could be construed as dislike, and therefore hate? And if you are willing to take that risk? Or are you just afraid that for once, people might be entrusted with their own lives in lieu of bureaucrats from many miles away? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 20 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 48 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 32 |
| Random fact: Particracy has been running since 2005. Dorvik was Particracy's first nation, the Dorvik Social Democrats the first party and the International Greens the first Party Organisation. |
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