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Bill: Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Socialist 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 3432
Description[?]:
| Extreme-themed movies and video games are damaging the developing minds of children and young people, making them insensitive to violence and gore. A wave of juvenile crime is being fuelled by these irresponsible elements within our entertainment industry. It is not right to glorify the infliction of physical suffering purely for the sake of profit, and it is certainly not acceptable to target children with such products. The GNP are loudly proclaiming that they are the tough on crime party. Let them prove their credentials by supporting our proposal to keep these grotesque movies and video games out of the hands of the young. Antonio Benandez MP (Leader of the Opposition) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of the viewing of movies.
Old value:: The viewing of movies is not regulated by the government.
Current: The government sets a range of standards (to be determined) but these only apply to movie theaters.
Proposed: The government sets a range of standards (to be determined) and these apply to cinemas and private homes.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of video games.
Old value:: The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box.
Current: The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box.
Proposed: The government maintains strict age limitation laws that require proof of age before sales of video games may be made.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:13:10, January 27, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the GNP doesn't have to prove anything. We have pointed out countless times that our approach on crime follows the premise of punishing actual crimes, not creating a more and more invasive police state that restricts the freedom of decent citizens as the DSP is proposing here by calling for censorship of movies. Mr Speaker, we believe that Dranish families are mature enough to keep their children away from inadequate content. They don't need the DSP as a moral judge for what they choose to view in cinema or what they play on their computers. Jacqueline Townsend MP Member for Valdor Prime Minister |
| Date | 21:24:44, January 27, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister thinks protecting "the freedom of decent citizens" means allowing irresponsible companies to market gory, violence-promoting products to impressionable young people. The GNP are proving, yet again, that they are so fixated on laissez faire ideology that they do not have a clue how society works. Next I suppose the Prime Minister will be wanting to extend gun ownership to children? After all, after they've killed with guns in video games and watched people being blown to pieces by guns in movies, it will not be long until our kids want to practice the real thing. Antonio Benandez MP (Leader of the Opposition) |
| Date | 22:32:44, January 27, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the Hon. Member seems to believe that as soon as the state refrains from dictating to families what their children are allowed to see and what not, everything will plunge into violence, chaos and anarchy. This is not our approach, since we believe in the ability of parents to keep their children away from dangerous content. In response to Mr Benandez' ridiculous notion that I would be wanting to extend gun ownership to children, I wish to ask Mr Benandez in turn if his next step includes banning books dealing with war, criminality or violence from libraries in order to eradicate any chance of children getting in contact with such content? Jacqueline Townsend MP Member for Valdor Prime Minister |
| Date | 22:37:25, January 27, 2013 CET | From | Radical Liberal Party of Dranland | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker I don't believin DSP will do that if they do we will be the first ones to stand against them but thinking on bill's than dictating families are much less worse than slavery. Florence McCormick MP from Elbian Chairwoman of Greens |
| Date | 22:50:41, January 27, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, young people are subject to a tremendous amount of peer pressure, and a great deal of manipulation by unscrupulous businesses who are more concerned about lining their own pockets than child development or child welfare. We fully accept that parents are responsible for children, but the broader society has a role to play in this too -and it is ludicrous to pretend otherwise. Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister seems completely out-of-touch with Dranish parents and Dranish families. She does not have a clue what it is like trying to raise children in modern Dranish society. Antonio Benandez MP (Leader of the Opposition) |
| Date | 23:16:18, January 27, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, being the mother of two children myself I strongly reject the Hon. Member's suggestion about me not knowing how it is to raise children. There is no such thing as "Broader society", there are individuals, and there are their families (OOC: We all know who this quote comes from in RL ;-)). Families' autonomy is sacred to those who believe in small government, and we will not compromise on this issue. Jacqueline Townsend MP Member for Valdor Prime Minister |
| Date | 00:39:40, January 28, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | OOC: hehe, yes - that was one of Maggie's most famous lines :) BTW, a later Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith, went on to write a book called "There is such a thing as society" - http://www.amazon.co.uk/There-Such-Thing-as-Society/dp/1842750526/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359329931&sr=1-2 |
| Date | 02:09:28, January 28, 2013 CET | From | Plaid Genedlaethol Rhyddfrydol | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, we find issues that one part of this bill allows the government to regulate private home use, and therefore we opposite it. Brychan Cadwallader MP Deputy Parliamentary Leader for PPC |
| Date | 02:35:06, January 28, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Regulation of Movies and Video Games Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I hope the Honourable Member Brychan Cadwallader and his party would be able to support our proposed reform to video games if it was put forward in a separate bill. Antonio Benandez MP (Leader of the Opposition) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 163 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 179 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 9 |
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