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Bill: Media (National and International Content Regulation) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union 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: February 2557
Description[?]:
| An act to remove regulation of media content. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Proposed: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Article 2
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 | 01:34:20, April 03, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Media (National and International Content Regulation) Amendment Act |
| Message | It is a sine qua non for a democracy to have a free media. But that is not what we have in this country. The currents laws allow the state to censor the media, and that is not right. We must allow the media to be independent of state inference. |
| Date | 02:06:47, April 03, 2008 CET | From | Tuatha Dé Danann | To | Debating the Media (National and International Content Regulation) Amendment Act |
| Message | Oppose |
| Date | 15:50:11, April 03, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Media (National and International Content Regulation) Amendment Act |
| Message | :headbang: |
| Date | 06:47:30, April 04, 2008 CET | From | Tukarali Democratic Party | To | Debating the Media (National and International Content Regulation) Amendment Act |
| Message | Opposed. |
| Date | 16:54:09, April 05, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Media (National and International Content Regulation) Amendment Act |
| Message | Why should papers or tv news be able to publish proven faslehoods? Good information is also a fundamental to a well functioning democracy. How's it fair to have a democracy but witholding the people the information they need to base their opinion on? If you feed them lies and propaganda, your democracy and free media are nothing more than a scam |
| Date | 23:15:47, April 05, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Media (National and International Content Regulation) Amendment Act |
| Message | Well said GLDS. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 100 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 400 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In Culturally Protected nations, special care must be taken to ensure realism is maintained when role-playing a government controlled by an ethnic and/or religious minority. If it is to be supposed that this government is supported by a majority of the population, then this should be plausibly and sufficiently role-played. The burden of proof is on the player or players role-playing such a regime to demonstrate that it is being done realistically |
| Random quote: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill |