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Bill: Keep Media Free From Government Dirty Hands
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalizt 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: December 2150
Description[?]:
| In an attempt to liberate popular Media from government business, and in the same time guaranteeing a satisfying level of culture, we propose to privatize the nationalized TV and Radio sector and to let them be run by non profit indipendent cooperatives, with no government incentive at all. Non profit coops, having no interest in profit at all, will instead take great incentive from competition to make more cultured programs, substituting the popular capitalistic equation "Competition + Money = Profit" with a more mild but still effective "Competition - Money = Culture". Although it will be missed the primary propellent for high competition, money, having multiple companies dealing with national media should be a good incentive too. Instead, State owned Media is like a big Monopolized Company. How could have it interest in making highly cultured programs? It's not just because its owner is called 'State'. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which receive no subsidies from the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which receive no subsidies from the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:45:35, December 03, 2005 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Keep Media Free From Government Dirty Hands |
| Message | Is it fine for the highly cultured parties of Hobrazia? |
| Date | 18:46:42, December 03, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Keep Media Free From Government Dirty Hands |
| Message | We could accept this though we would rather only the state channel was converted to the new system. |
| Date | 18:49:45, December 03, 2005 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Keep Media Free From Government Dirty Hands |
| Message | Which other channels exist if they are state owned? |
| Date | 18:51:08, December 03, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Keep Media Free From Government Dirty Hands |
| Message | It is fine for the L-PU, as my standards for culture are rather low. |
| Date | 18:54:13, December 03, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Keep Media Free From Government Dirty Hands |
| Message | Current proposal - "The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes." Alternate proposal - "All television stations are owned by the state." Our current system implies that all channels are private except the single state owned one. Same for radio. |
| Date | 21:28:54, December 03, 2005 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Keep Media Free From Government Dirty Hands |
| Message | Oh, I get it. That means I'm actually proposing to give the whole Media sector to private non-profit companies. I gotta modify the text. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 221 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 179 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Nation raiding" or a malevolent coordinated effort by a single user or group of users to interrupt the gameplay, significantly alter the culture or direction of a nation is strictly prohibited. Players interacting in nation raiding will be sanctioned. |
| Random quote: "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. " - P. J. O Rourke |