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Bill: Competition of Mediums
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Beluzian Movement
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 3640
Description[?]:
| We encourage a new form of holistic and fruitful competition within our borders: - Radio and auditory based communication shall be driven solely by the need to communicate, operated only democratically through the desires of listeners. No profit motive shall occur. - Visual based communication shall originate from the top, the most brilliant minds of the state shall preach to the people, and thus all television stations shall become state owned. No democracy or profit. - The Internet shall remain entirely unleashed, good and bad, upon all. Let the profit motive reign supreme. This will allow for a cultural renewal of our Nation State; separate entities associated with separate values culminating in a new whole. Oppose stagnation and deny the rot. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: All television stations are owned by the state.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:43:51, March 22, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the Competition of Mediums |
| Message | This bill threatens to crush our vibrant and diverse cooperative media sector. Our nation's cultural life would be severly impoverished were it to pass. |
| Date | 12:03:50, March 22, 2014 CET | From | New Beluzian Movement | To | Debating the Competition of Mediums |
| Message | Cooperative media does not exist within a cultural vacuum; the distortions which have lead us to this prolonged period of political lethargy result from predominant cultural norms created through the current media laws. We must reinvigorate our culture through separating the voices of our people, our politicians and our businesses, or no clear voice will be heard through the din. We urge you to support this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 391 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 244 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to prevent confusion by ensuring unofficial or outdated bills labelled as "Cultural Protocols" are removed from their nation page. |
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