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Bill: Child Protection
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertà Parti
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: August 2463
Description[?]:
| The children of Likatonia represent its future, and therefore should be protected from as much harm as possible. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The distribution, purchasing and possession of material depicting pornographic acts.
Old value:: All forms of pornography are legal, but only for adults.
Current: Pornography depicting consenting adults is legal for adults.
Proposed: Pornography depicting consenting adults is legal for adults.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:06:21, September 27, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Child Protection |
| Message | In both cases, we consider these might be steps in constructive directions... although they are babysteps. We may be open to suggestion here. |
| Date | 23:40:33, September 27, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the Child Protection |
| Message | We support fully Article 2. Article 1 we hold reservations about going back upon previous voting; whilst we do not in theory oppose the proposal, we do not wish to be seen as compromising our progressive and assertive agenda. We therefore petition the LP to divide this bill into two in the interests of Article 2. |
| Date | 04:36:49, September 28, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Child Protection |
| Message | Aye |
| Date | 08:33:20, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the Child Protection |
| Message | We will support. |
| Date | 16:10:09, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Child Protection |
| Message | This is a difficult issue, and one in wich it is easy to make a stand without really getting to grips with the facts. This Bill would make any media depicting non-consensual sex potentially illegal, if they could be described as 'pornographic'. This is regardless of the context, and the consent of all involved. Whilst we strongly believe that there is rarely justification for such material, the fact that we cannot say never a justification means we have to vote nay. We would like to see a revised Bill drafted, with the same Articles, but specific details of context and exemption included. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 324 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 195 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 147 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air." - Changing Times magazine |