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Bill: Television Decency Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Aldurian Conservative 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: June 2139
Description[?]:
| This bill will ban highly offensive pornography from television. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding sexually explicit material on broadcast television.
Old value:: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Current: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Proposed: Sexually explicit material is allowed, but violent or hard core pornography is banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:13:39, November 09, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | We will never subscribe to censorship. |
| Date | 08:10:37, November 10, 2005 CET | From | New Aldurian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | We don't like censorship either, but as a rule there are some sorts of programs which do need to be restricted. Bear in mind that this doesn't apply to cable television, if we read the operative clause correctly. And even if it does, it doesn't infringe on an individual's right to purchase said pornography on their own. It simply doesn't throw it in their laps. |
| Date | 12:56:59, November 10, 2005 CET | From | Market Socialist Party | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | We will have to think this over...if you think about it (most and properly socialized people) would not want to be channel surfing and sudenly flip the channel and see some horrid scene where someone is being sadistically raped. But yet again...it takes only a half a second to change the channel. And parents who are actually worried about what their children see can put blocks on certain channels. We will think this over. |
| Date | 15:23:46, November 10, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | Attracted by commodity, the channel aiming a large audiance will self regulate themselves. The parents can block more 'sensitive' public channels. It is not the duty of the state to judge the good taste of TV programmation. |
| Date | 20:19:01, November 10, 2005 CET | From | New Aldurian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | If we could pass a law, say, ordering that chips to allow parents to regulate such material on their TVs, we would. But we would like to note that the possibility of looking for an episode of a children's program with one's children and flipping across a particularly brutal show is a distinct possibilty as of now, and we would at the least like to see this reigned in. |
| Date | 20:58:30, November 10, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | Every TV since the discovery of the americas by the norms is equiped with a channel block device. This is a matter of personnal choice, the parent can supervise the tv session of their children, the state should be kept out of the private life of our citizens. |
| Date | 22:35:34, November 10, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Social Liberty Party | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | dont like what 's on.... change the television! |
| Date | 01:10:29, November 11, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Front | To | Debating the Television Decency Act |
| Message | What's good and bad or right and wrong is completely artificial. If i was brought up not seeing anything sexual, or thinking it bad, than i would judge sex as bad. As the reverse is true. Thus, let people be exposed to everything in this sense, and allow them to choose. Just like diffewrent religious beliefs, some are more binding than others, some more strict than others. Let the public set its own limits in this sense. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 136 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 265 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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