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Bill: Freeing the media from the government
Details
Submitted by[?]: Demokratisk Pacifist Partiet
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: January 2601
Description[?]:
| It's absurd to have the government control the entire media, and this situation endangers and the freedom of the people not to have their opinions pre-filtered by a government-controlled media. We propose a comprimise that will both rectify this situation and satisfy the communists' need to have the state operate the media(and obviously satisfying the capitalists' need to allow citizens to create their own radio and television stations) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are owned by the state.
Current: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
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 stations are owned by the state.
Current: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
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 | 18:41:30, July 02, 2008 CET | From | National Labour Party | To | Debating the Freeing the media from the government |
| Message | "All radio/TV stations are owned by the state." Stinks communist regime to me. I think there should be some personal freedom in the media. |
| Date | 19:15:51, July 02, 2008 CET | From | (NWO) Saiserist Förening | To | Debating the Freeing the media from the government |
| Message | Actually, it'd be Communist or Fascist. Neither of them allowed private media. |
| Date | 20:10:07, July 02, 2008 CET | From | National Labour Party | To | Debating the Freeing the media from the government |
| Message | Good thing I`m neither communist or fascist then. |
| Date | 20:25:35, July 02, 2008 CET | From | Folks Revolusjonær Kommunistiske Parti | To | Debating the Freeing the media from the government |
| Message | National Socialism IS fascism with a twist. |
| Date | 20:37:24, July 02, 2008 CET | From | National Labour Party | To | Debating the Freeing the media from the government |
| Message | Bullshit as usual, communist. |
| Date | 20:55:55, July 02, 2008 CET | From | Folks Revolusjonær Kommunistiske Parti | To | Debating the Freeing the media from the government |
| Message | "The Nazis were one of several historical groups that used the term National Socialism to describe themselves, and in the 1920s they became the largest such group. Nazism is generally considered by scholars to be a form of fascism. While not directly linked to any school of western conservative thought, like all strains of fascism, it drew many elements from and formed solid alliances with the political right." |
| Date | 07:24:05, July 03, 2008 CET | From | (NWO) Saiserist Förening | To | Debating the Freeing the media from the government |
| Message | The FRKP's got you there. NatSoc is just Fascism with a focus on racism rather than unitarism, which is what you find in pure Fascism. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 173 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 279 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 48 |
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