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Bill: Freedom of Opinion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pragmatist 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: January 2448
Description[?]:
| It is foolish that one citizen may be sued for expressing an unflattering opinion of another. Slander lawsuits should be limited to those actually involving falsehoods. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over falsehoods and defamatory opinions spoken about them, if judged to be malicious.
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 | 19:40:46, August 25, 2007 CET | From |  Partie Légitimisme | To | Debating the Freedom of Opinion Act |
| Message | We support this, there is no reason why non-malicious slander should be punished in such a harsh way. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 172 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 204 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "To the youth of America, I say, beware of being trivialized by the commercial culture that tempts you daily. I hear you saying often that you're not turned on by politics. The lessons of history are clear and portentous. If you do not turn onto politics, politics will turn on you." - Ralph Nader |