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Bill: RSP - Act for Safer Media
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Socialist 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: November 2489
Description[?]:
| this bill plans at improving the media of this country |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
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:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
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.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The time at which sexually explicit content may be shown on broadcast television (if allowed).
Old value:: Sexually explicit content may be shown all day long.
Current: Sexually explicit content or nudity may only be shown during hours that very few children watch television
Proposed: Sexually explicit content may only be shown during hours that very few children watch. Nudity may be shown all day long.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:53:16, November 21, 2007 CET | From |  Globale Verbesserung Partei | To | Debating the RSP - Act for Safer Media |
| Message | A Government propaganda radio station is not what this nation needs or wants. |
| Date | 21:32:08, November 21, 2007 CET | From | Computational Intellect Project | To | Debating the RSP - Act for Safer Media |
| Message | WOAH - we cannot support this. 1) You are banning private media. All private industry is democratically run now; there is no suffering proletariat and bourgeois that are being harmed by the aristocracy; with all democratic corporations and children raised by the state, the only aristocracy now is self-made aristocracy (the new rich). 2) Fully government funded media is not safe. It opens up the ability for the government to run propaganda all day long. A complete control over all information is too much power for the government to have. "Propaganda is to democracy what the truncheon is to the police state." 3) Limiting media to only government media limits peoples' free choice; this is not a good thing. 4) We also object to your proposal on limiting sexually explicit content, and we don't like your labeling it as "unsafe." We don't mind it being played all day long. You say that it is "unsafe" for children to see sexually explicit material on accident or when their parents aren't looking, but just what basis do you have for such a dogmatic statement? Religion? Let us remind you that not only is religion inane, but it is banned, my friends. |
| Date | 01:54:00, November 22, 2007 CET | From | Republican Socialist Party | To | Debating the RSP - Act for Safer Media |
| Message | "1) You are banning private media. All private industry is democratically run now; there is no suffering proletariat and bourgeois that are being harmed by the aristocracy; with all democratic corporations and children raised by the state, the only aristocracy now is self-made aristocracy (the new rich)." firstly we are only proposing that a state television is run on behalf of the public, it is not owned and the same goes for the radio station. WE ARE NOT BANNING PRIVATE MEDIA (IRW -In Real World- we aim to have something like the BBC which is totaly independent but has money from the state to help run a total and impartial service) "2) Fully government funded media is not safe. It opens up the ability for the government to run propaganda all day long." Again the station that is being run on behalf of the people and not the government, there will be rules in place to ensure that all stations are independet. and we agree with your views on free choice that is why we feel that the people should have the choice to have a totaly independent media service. |
| Date | 01:55:40, November 22, 2007 CET | From | Republican Socialist Party | To | Debating the RSP - Act for Safer Media |
| Message | also if this bill is passed we would like to propose that a bill be drafted by ourselves with of course the input from other parties on the code of conduct for these radio and TV stations to ensure that they are free from government interference how does that sound?? |
| Date | 10:29:39, November 22, 2007 CET | From | Computational Intellect Project | To | Debating the RSP - Act for Safer Media |
| Message | OOC: Well, the way it is now, we have something like BBC, plus private and non-subsidized media. There is media that fits regulation and is subsidized, and media that is totally unregulated, not subsidized, and run entirely for profit. This is similar to the real life situation in Great Britain, as well as in America (CBS), Kenya (KBS), etc. etc. |
| Date | 10:30:33, November 22, 2007 CET | From | Computational Intellect Project | To | Debating the RSP - Act for Safer Media |
| Message | The way this bill dictates, there is one media firm that is independent but subsidized. We do not like this idea. That is not like BBC. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 54 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 219 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 82 |
| Random fact: Particracy allows you to establish an unelected head of state like a monarch or a president-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The head of state is hereditary and symbolic; the head of government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the head of state" to how you want the new head of state's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI). |
| Random quote: "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi |