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Bill: Social Market Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cildanian Nationalist 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: April 2594
Description[?]:
| It's time to release the potential and creativity of markets, while respecting the rights and dignity of workers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
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; everything else may be published freely.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on the source code of software.
Old value:: The government requires that all source be opened.
Current: The government does not require that all source be opened but heavilly regulates closed source software.
Proposed: The government allows both open and closed source software.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Current: The government requires all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:29:26, June 17, 2008 CET | From |  New Socialist Left Party | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | You won't have our support :)! |
| Date | 14:42:32, June 17, 2008 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | We firmly support articles 4 and 6, while articles 3 and 5 are not directly against our beliefs. However, articles 1 and 2 are a no-go for us. |
| Date | 14:50:01, June 17, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | Pushing these large conglomerate bills to vote only force us to counteract with our own large bills... |
| Date | 16:09:32, June 17, 2008 CET | From | Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | We thought that the JLC would support our attempts at de-nationalizing industries. |
| Date | 06:09:26, June 18, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | No, the League will only support attempts to relinquish control of industries. Whether the government controls the telephone industry by owning and operating it outright or by indirectly fixing prices or output, it still controls the industry. Here you are simply shifting the government away from socialism and toward fascism. If this is your agenda then so be it, but the JLC will not support it. |
| Date | 15:18:52, June 18, 2008 CET | From | Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | It's not fascism, it's just not Laissez-Faire Capitalism. |
| Date | 15:20:40, June 18, 2008 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | We support the modified version of the bill, though the last article would have been better as it stands. |
| Date | 15:25:42, June 18, 2008 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | Hmm... after a deeper debate we retreat our support, though we will not vote against, since the "false information" clause is too broad and does not have any attached set of rules regarding its interpretation. |
| Date | 16:00:21, June 18, 2008 CET | From | Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | The clause it just to protect and help keep informative media (i.e newspapers, tv news) from providing false information (at least maliciously). It doesn't ban satire or fiction, but is to help keep the two seperate from information. Those deemed to be guilty would be fined. |
| Date | 18:34:27, June 18, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party (marxist-deleonist) | To | Debating the Social Market Act |
| Message | We support only the first article. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 31 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 61 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 83 |
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