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Bill: Free Media Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front
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: December 2496
Description[?]:
| We must not have any outlets of pro-government propaganda. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station 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: All radio stations are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national TV station 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: All television media are private.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change International media content regulation.
Old value:: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Current: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Proposed: International media content is free from regulation
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:56:06, December 04, 2007 CET | From |  Démocrates de la Gauche | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | Why must foreign media be free from regulation? We have television regulations to preserve descency, not just so that internaitional media content can avoid regulation. |
| Date | 17:26:26, December 04, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | That is not the focus of this proposal and may yet be removed. However, an uncensored outlet for foreign media is the best way to protect against the state tyranny of media content. |
| Date | 19:04:29, December 04, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Jelbanian Party-D.L.J.-D.L.F | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | we strongly oppose |
| Date | 21:50:24, December 04, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberal Party - D.L.J. | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | We oppose |
| Date | 02:04:53, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | If article 4 is taken out, we would gladly support this. |
| Date | 15:22:00, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Démocrates de la Gauche | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | So any t.v show can have nudity or sexually explicit material because we do not regulate foreign media. |
| Date | 20:27:07, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | That's a good point about article 3. We will support this bill because we strongly support 1 and 2. But we will return to the issue in article 3 at another time - we don't nudity or sexually explicit material shown either. |
| Date | 20:27:41, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | *we don't WANT nudity or... |
| Date | 01:44:31, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Anarchistes pour une Société Libre | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | The NBP is against any form of privatization. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 247 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 143 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 111 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "The whole uncivilized bunch on the opposite benches can get stuffed." - Craig Warwick, former Dranian politician |