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Bill: Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Party
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: January 2130
Description[?]:
While we do not condone hate speech, we believe that freedom of speech is an inalienable right. Prohibition of hate speech does nothing to change the ideas that those who make such statements. Hate speech should be dealt with through debate and discussion. Inciting violence from hate speech will remain illegal and those espousing such views in the effort to incite violence will be punished harshly. False information (most likely from April Fools' jokes) will need to come with a disclaimer near the article or before it is mentioned on television or radio. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 05:15:09, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | The AAP will support... under the proviso that materials carrying possibly 'false' information should be labelled as such. Simple disclaimers for individual articles, or generic disclaimers for the entire media-object would suffice. |
Date | 05:20:05, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | While we do not condone hate speech, we believe that freedom of speech is an inalienable right. Prohibition of hate speech does nothing to change the ideas that those who make such statements. Hate speech should be dealt with through debate and discussion. Inciting violence from hate speech will remain illegal and those espousing such views in the effort to incite violence will be punished harshly. |
Date | 13:59:25, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | We support this change. |
Date | 20:11:30, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | The AAP agrees with the Progressive Party... people must have the right to express themselves. And, while it is fair to allow free-expression, it is ALSO fair to punish the those who incite violence and lawbreaking THROUGH free-expression. |
Date | 17:16:54, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | we support. |
Date | 17:17:52, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | If an officer urges his men on in a war, could that not be incitement to violence through hate speech? |
Date | 18:57:17, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | An officer in the military wouldn't be considered to be inciting violence through hate speech under this legislation. Wartime is a wholly separate matter. |
Date | 19:19:53, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | Actually, we side with the AAP on this. Violence and hatred is bad for business. |
Date | 20:52:16, October 21, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | We feel this is a good start in the direction of true freedom of speach. Our citizens have the intelligence to discern true from false, hateful from loving, and good from bad. To prohibit any speach is restrictive on the free exchange of ideas, as well as offensive to the intelligence of our citizenry. |
Date | 04:29:41, October 22, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | moving to vote |
Date | 04:35:49, October 22, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | So long as disclaimers are present (somewhere) for KNOWN falsehoods, and so long as the 'right' to free expression is tempered with punishment for malicious abuse of that 'right'... the AAP is more than happy to support. |
Date | 16:36:56, October 22, 2005 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Freedom Of Speech (ii) |
Message | Eh, if this is going to be universal, I'll not be the dissenter. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||||
yes |
Total Seats: 401 | |||||||
no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 99 |
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