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Bill: Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Trade 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: March 3153
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Internet regulations.
Old value:: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Current: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Proposed: The government has no position on who may use or what is published on the internet.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:57:16, July 15, 2011 CET | From |  Deltarian Liberal Movement | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | "We don't understand why the pursuit of criminal justice should be hindered? The Internet is a public domain and the police should have the ability to access published documents to prevent harm to citizens or help remove dangers to society." - Maria Selden Liberal Conservative Minister for Defence |
| Date | 23:30:41, July 15, 2011 CET | From | Social Anarchy Party | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | Agree with article two but not one |
| Date | 06:30:25, July 16, 2011 CET | From | Thatcherite Alliance | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | I think both could be agreed upon. |
| Date | 06:26:37, July 17, 2011 CET | From | Deltarian Liberal Movement | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | "Well, this is certainly a cultural shift. No longer will we have shady drug and prostitution deals going on in the dead of night. No longer will our marketplaces be filled with illegally copied dvds - stealing the profits from the hard work of Deltarian private enterprise. Instead - this will all happen from the comfort of ones home or ones work desk in the complete legality of an open chat-room. This loophole will cripple how our society deals with its criminals, this loophole is a risk that there is no point in taking. The legislation isn't broken, so why try to mess things up for our hard working police officers?" - Rachel Wies Liberal Conservative Minister for Education and Culture |
| Date | 17:14:08, July 17, 2011 CET | From | Démocraties Libérales | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | This bill isn't restricting the right of police to conduct investigations, this just removes the governments final position on internet use, and makes it much less regulated and allows greater online freedom, something which should be the right of all online citizens. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 217 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 134 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 21 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
| Random quote: "Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction." - Charles R. Magel |