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Bill: Government Is Not Pure And The Like, Keep It Off From Media
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: August 2158
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 | 15:37:34, December 19, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Government Is Not Pure And The Like, Keep It Off From Media |
| Message | This looks familiar....where have I seen it before?? |
| Date | 15:39:14, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Government Is Not Pure And The Like, Keep It Off From Media |
| Message | http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=35039 And then the bill that replaced it http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=36257 |
| Date | 15:41:07, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Government Is Not Pure And The Like, Keep It Off From Media |
| Message | When did this get changed anyway? |
| Date | 15:41:40, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Government Is Not Pure And The Like, Keep It Off From Media |
| Message | Ok, I was inactive. |
| Date | 17:20:01, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Government Is Not Pure And The Like, Keep It Off From Media |
| Message | what about public service? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 207 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 166 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 27 |
| Random fact: Particracy is set in the fictional world of Terra, which mirrors the real world of today and yet is not quite like it. |
| Random quote: "It all came from there." - Lech Walesa (pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell) |