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Bill: Reverse Media Privatization Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM)
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 2558
Description[?]:
| We denounce the Media Privatization Act and wish to reverse said act. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are private.
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:: All television media are private.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:03:44, April 07, 2008 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | I do not believe that we currently have the funds to maintain a national radio station or a national television station. |
| Date | 01:10:57, April 07, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | It needn't be large but of a sufficient size to supplement our educational system. With the crippling cuts, across the board, we must ensure that our citizens have more available to them than entertainment on the radio and the telly. This bill will allow people to choose what they wish to watch and hear. They can sit back and be entertained. Or, if they choose, they can become informed. An informed public has a better say in making better choices for their life. -Roger Evars, COM Party Leader |
| Date | 15:37:35, April 07, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | We will not support a single radio or TV channel for the government to spread propoganda through. James Lott Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
| Date | 17:12:47, April 07, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | And yet you support public education... -Roger Evars, COM Party Leader |
| Date | 19:16:32, April 07, 2008 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | OOC: The man has a point |
| Date | 19:54:44, April 07, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | An educated citizenry is an issue of economic prosperity. Our party has always voted on a platform which stated the job of the government was to regulate a free market to stimulate prosperity. The only way to ensure that all citizens are educated is by providing a public education system. We support a government promotion of expansion of that knowledge through library funding. Television, however, is a medium of entertainment. It's educational values are lost in the fact that veiwers will simply change the channel if they are not amused or excited by the content of the programming. This is why we fear that a government funded channel would lean more towards the purposes of spreading propoganda and false information rather than facts. James Lott Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
| Date | 01:22:21, April 08, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | By the DCD's approach people are denied a choice of how they spend their time. If they wish to receive education and information at home, perhaps they are not able to leave their home for health reasons, they are prevented in their intellectual growth. -COM |
| Date | 03:10:41, April 08, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | We find it presumable that anyone unable to leave his or her home for health reasons would have an assistant to take care of him or her, whether it be a family member, hired helper, or otherwise. There is no reason why the individuals responsible for aiding those in such poor health cannot provide the appropriate literature should the ailed individual seek to grow intellectually. James Lott Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
| Date | 06:14:46, April 08, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Reverse Media Privatization Act |
| Message | Should members of DCD become unable to leave their home we will go above and beyond to help them instead of merely presuming they have assistants. Presumption only goes so far. Action is the real deal. -Roger Evars |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 83 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 265 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 14 |
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