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Bill: Freedom of Speech bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Coalition
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: February 2531
Description[?]:
| Communication and learning are important to critical thought and free thought, and must be allowed. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: The nation has no laws regarding slander.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:55:18, February 11, 2008 CET | From | People's Radical Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Speech bill |
| Message | We simply cannot support the removal of slander laws. |
| Date | 00:20:57, February 12, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Freedom of Speech bill |
| Message | Why not? They're simply a waste of money for the state caused by people too thin-skinned for society, |
| Date | 01:57:27, February 12, 2008 CET | From | People's Radical Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Speech bill |
| Message | A man's reputation is one of his most important possessions, and to remove any safeguard against that being taken from him is a dangerous step towards total and unbridled anarchy in public debate. |
| Date | 08:10:30, February 12, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Freedom of Speech bill |
| Message | What has public debate to do with anything? Frankly I reserve the right to call someone a bastard if I view him a bastard, and not loose actual posessions, such as money, for it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 164 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 177 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 102 |
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| Random quote: "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller |