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Bill: Reliability in Media Bill 2608
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Liberal 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: September 2609
Description[?]:
| -- JOINT STATEMENT -- "A government truly dedicated to the wellbeing and honesty of its people would never allow media moguls to actively publish false information about any person." Vanessa Christi New Liberal Party Shadow Minister for Education and Culture Josh Girvin New Liberal Party Shadow Minister for Science and Technology |
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 International media content regulation.
Old value:: International media content is free from regulation
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 | 11:36:03, July 20, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Reliability in Media Bill 2608 |
| Message | "RRDF supports article 2. For article 1, we agree, but there is a principle of free speech, and government should'nt interfere with that principle, false information publication should be regulated in another manner." Kenneth Brown, party leader in National Congress |
| Date | 13:59:11, July 20, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the Reliability in Media Bill 2608 |
| Message | The LCP supports neither article and only endorses the free and unadulterated speech of all people and the right for that speech to be broadcast no matter the reliability or source, foreign or domestic. |
| Date | 14:12:48, July 20, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Reliability in Media Bill 2608 |
| Message | Edgar Costadinov, president of RRDF and Chancellor-General: "I have to correct Mr. Brown, our party leader and official spokesman in National Congress. International media should also respect some norms, but the government is not qualified to determine that. Everyone should be able to speak freely, and Rutania is traditionally a very open country. We, talking in the name of my party but also in the name of entire Cabinet, actually do not support neither of these two presented articles, and if this law comes to voting, we will vote against." |
| Date | 17:20:01, July 20, 2008 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Reliability in Media Bill 2608 |
| Message | Well, it seems we have something we can agree with the New Liberal Party on! |
| Date | 21:31:44, July 20, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Reliability in Media Bill 2608 |
| Message | Do you support censure, labour party? |
| Date | 19:23:56, July 21, 2008 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Reliability in Media Bill 2608 |
| Message | We support that racist rags which often make up the daily press and the sole source of many peoples' news and information on the world, be forced to actually provide evidence for their statements and claims. We are confident, no, certain, that they will have to retract a vast number of stories, and it will be proved that their vile hate is without any basis, and is hate for hate's sake. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 200 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 399 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw |