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Bill: Diverse Media Action 2569
Details
Submitted by[?]: Trabajo y Libertad
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 2569
Description[?]:
| Don't hate the media, be the media |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are private.
Current: All radio stations are owned by the state.
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 media are private.
Current: All television stations are owned by the state.
Proposed: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives 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 | 13:36:13, April 30, 2008 CET | From |  Unión de Centro Democrático | To | Debating the Diverse Media Action 2569 |
| Message | This is unnaceptable for us, it is a shameful attack on the economic freedom of the Davostanese people. |
| Date | 14:14:46, April 30, 2008 CET | From | Trabajo y Libertad | To | Debating the Diverse Media Action 2569 |
| Message | Why is that? In fact, under this law the corporate media is still free to lie, cheat and steal. However an alternative is offered in the form of public media which will be free of such greed-driven bias. |
| Date | 17:11:56, April 30, 2008 CET | From | Unión de Centro Democrático | To | Debating the Diverse Media Action 2569 |
| Message | That is not true. Public media will be controlled and influenced by the government! Our country is becoming more and more totalitarian. |
| Date | 01:36:57, May 01, 2008 CET | From | Partido Comunista de Davostan (Maoísta) | To | Debating the Diverse Media Action 2569 |
| Message | There is no reasonable explanation of how could a bill that the only thing it does is create public, national media, without effecting in any sense the private media industry, which right to exist is not being discussed, diminish economic freedom of the Davostanian people. In the other hand, this bill does increase collective freedoms in the measure it is able to stop corporate ominpotence over the media, which is indeed totalitarian; while a bill that allows both public and private media and makes them coexist is not. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 53 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 27 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 49 |
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