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Bill: Free Media Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jewish Mothers' Union
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: November 2567
Description[?]:
| There is far too much state control and censorship over our media. Melanie Koffenbaum (Leader of the JMU) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are owned by the state.
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 independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All television stations are owned by the state.
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 independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Internet regulations.
Old value:: There is major censorship of the internet by the government.
Current: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Proposed: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information, hate speech, and subversive anti-government material.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change International media content regulation.
Old value:: International media content is heavily censored for political purposes.
Current: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Proposed: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:55:18, April 26, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | "We strongly agree, and commend this bill. We also encourage HaLeumit Tikvah to change their vote for the good of the nation." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 20:19:27, April 26, 2008 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | OOC: Change our vote after we went to the trouble of sneaking this through will you were away? That would take out the fun of semi-cheating... IC:"Dissent and propaganda are not good for the nation." -Gilad Lifschitz |
| Date | 21:22:13, April 26, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | [OOC] lmao [IC] "So, you have condemned dissent, although dissent is a good thing. And then you condemned propaganda, although, hypocritically, that is precisely what the people will watch on public media." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 21:42:19, April 26, 2008 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | "We do not condemn real dissent, only that manufactured as needed by the media." -Gilad Lifschitz |
| Date | 14:22:43, April 27, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | "If you want real dissent and not "fake dissent" manufactured by the media, why would you wish to control the internet? The very design of the internet is managed in an anarchist fashion, and there are no powerful companies that control it - the internet has no agenda. If you wanted to stop "fake dissent," there would be absolutely no point in censoring the internet. And if you wanted to stop "fake dissent," why would you care about "subversive anti-government" material, seeing that anti-government material is not in the financial interests of government-sanctioned oligopolies, as they stand now? It seems to us as if the HaLeumit Tikvah is less concerned with genuine misinformation, and more with the political censoring of material the HaLeumit Tikvah personally disagrees with." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 15:52:23, April 27, 2008 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | "The GJA habit of making wild and baseless accusations against its supposed political allies is most troubling. We have explained our opposition to the lies and violent opportunism promoted by the private media, be they big or small scale. To accuse us of supporting polices for corrupt reasons is a vicious slander that has no place coming from a member of the Government." -Gilad Lifschitz |
| Date | 16:03:16, April 27, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | "There IS no other reason to censor the internet except for political reasons. If you are in favor of censoring the internet you HAVE a political agenda behind it. It is plain and simple." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 16:08:55, April 27, 2008 CET | From | Jewish Mothers' Union | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | We are troubled to note that we are the only Jewish party which appears to support a free media, Melanie Koffenbaum (Leader of the JMU) |
| Date | 16:11:24, April 27, 2008 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | "On the contrary, censorship is to remove the political agenda of the private media. And you did not accuse us of having a political agenda, you accused us of corruption." -Gilad Lifschitz |
| Date | 16:45:40, April 27, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | "Internet is not controlled by private media, and has no political agenda. Censoring the internet for political reasons is corrupt. And JMU: We and the CZP are both Jews - we simply have different religions (and the lack thereof)." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 17:29:09, April 27, 2008 CET | From | Am Echad, Pays Libre | To | Debating the Free Media Act |
| Message | WE are a party in favor of Jewish Principles but we are Christians and other non-jewish Zionists. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 184 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 172 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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