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Bill: Multimedia Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Al'Badara Republican 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: December 2467
Description[?]:
| This act creates one nationally subsidised radio and television station instead of several hundred media stations. The public station will be equivalent to a BBC or CBC that will compete fairly with private stations instead of having our own radio stations cannibalise each other to compete for ratings. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Current: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:49:38, October 08, 2007 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Multimedia Act |
| Message | Yes. Or no. Or we could allow the INDEPENDANT NEWS AND INFORMATION stations which care about things other then simple ratings to continue. The best part about our media is that it is free from the stupidty of ratings and thus allows more, unfiltered information and better, perhaps more abstract television to be on the air right along with reruns of I Love Lucy and the like. Allow the corporations to run the media and you won't have independence. You'll have what the corporate filter seeks to sell you, what the ads tell you, and only entertainment and sport that is "big in ratings". This would be an enormous step backwords for the media. |
| Date | 04:50:08, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Union of Progressive Ulama | To | Debating the Multimedia Act |
| Message | Sorry, can't support the introduction of sinful capitalism into the information media, or the centralization of media into a state-owned broadcasting stattion either. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 61 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 149 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 55 |
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