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Bill: Free the Internet Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical Freedom 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: January 2169
Description[?]:
| It is our belief that the contents of communications on the internet should be inviolable, just as letters are inviolable. Authoritarian legislation with regards to the internet is hereby repealed! |
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 | 13:06:14, January 07, 2006 CET | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | Authoritarian legislation? Allowing the police to check PUBLIC sites and such? ŁAnd the reasoning behind this bill might have made sense, were it not that communications (such as e-mail and private chatboxes) on the internet are actually inviolable, just as letters. But public chatboxes, and public sites are not, anyone can access them, yet the police wouldn't be able to do so? Why don't you just abolish the police altogether? |
| Date | 16:48:22, January 07, 2006 CET | From | Radical Freedom Party | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | These investigations often require the police to move beyond public records. Anything posted on a publicly accessible forum would still be usable in a court of law, as it would not require a police investigation. However, investigations into illegal filesharing and e-mail interception move beyond this "public" aspect of the internet. |
| Date | 23:23:18, January 07, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | This status quo does not mention email interception. What the proposed legislation means is that the police cannot run investigations using the internet, so no, evidence from chatrooms and forums would NOT be acceptable in court, even though posting it is an overtly public act. |
| Date | 10:54:06, January 08, 2006 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | Indeed.. |
| Date | 14:21:34, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Radical Freedom Party | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | We interpret the law differently, clearly, as it specifically mentions filesharing and child abuse - activities which quite often are not posted about in public chartooms but use other means. (such as peer to peer programmes). |
| Date | 21:21:25, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | It says you can run an investigation on filesharing, ie. you can see that someone is distributing a filesharing programme, just as you can see that someone has put up a child porn website or whatever. These sick, depraved acts do not deserve to be shielded from the public scrutiny that they should subject to, and the appropiate attached legal actions. |
| Date | 22:44:24, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Radical Freedom Party | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | Freedom is not for scared people. |
| Date | 09:17:48, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | ...? |
| Date | 09:58:16, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Grand Republican Party | To | Debating the Free the Internet Act |
| Message | The GRP will never support a pro-paedophilic piece of legislation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 296 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 231 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 43 |
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