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Bill: Anti-Brainwashing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom Party
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: March 2099
Description[?]:
| We can't just allow any sort of trash on the television. I mean, right now there could be pornographic adverts during the saturday morning cartoons! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on advertising
Old value:: All advertising is permitted.
Current: Only advertising that meets certain set standards is permitted.
Proposed: Only advertising that meets certain set standards is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:51:05, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Anti-Brainwashing Act |
| Message | The advertising industry tends to regulate itself. There would be no point in a pornographic company advertising during the cartoons as they will have no benifits from them. The advertising community are not stupid and would only put on very expensive adverts when it will be of most use to their people. I therefore rise against this motion. |
| Date | 13:17:37, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Alorian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Anti-Brainwashing Act |
| Message | We are not sure on this, half of us say it should be regulated to allow safty, fair advertisement and watershed issues to be taken into consideration, the other half says it shouldnt to maintain a freedom of speach in advertiseing.....hmmm tricky. |
| Date | 17:25:39, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Anti-Brainwashing Act |
| Message | Furthermore, there is the problem of false advertising. Under the current conditions, a company can say that it product cures cancer when all it really does is cure a headache. |
| Date | 19:45:50, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Aloria Peace Party | To | Debating the Anti-Brainwashing Act |
| Message | We support this bill fully, we have to protect our nations vunerable, such as children who are likely to be exploited by advertisers. |
| Date | 11:49:09, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Anti-Brainwashing Act |
| Message | Is the government so nieve that they think advetisers are stupid enough to place adverts for "adult" products during childrens programming. It's absurd to think that companies would pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for an advert in which they would gain no revenue. Furthermore, the television and radio companies would not tarnish their own image by placing "adult" adverts during childrens programmes. What would be the effect, they would loose viewers and they would not get as much revenue from advertising fees. In conclusion, this is a very naieve bill and the writer evidently has no idea about coperate economics or the marketing industry. |
| Date | 19:34:40, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Republic of Aloria Party | To | Debating the Anti-Brainwashing Act |
| Message | we support this bill |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 224 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 176 |
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| Random quote: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." - Thomas Paine |