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Bill: Responsibility in Media Act
Details
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: May 3815
Description[?]:
| SEC I. Any media reporting, gathering or distributing company found to have knowingly and with malice aforethought publish false information about any individual, group, organization, etc. will be subject to fines and/or prosecution. SECII. This bill establishes the National Media Council (NMC) under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster ethics in journalism, to investigate complaints and resolve infractions. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:52:54, March 12, 2015 CET | From |  Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Responsibility in Media Act |
| Message | "Truth SHOULD NOT be regulated by the government." ~Ted Johnson, Head Chairman of the LPS |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 111 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 314 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't vote yes on a cabinet coalition that doesn't give you the power that you deserve. |
| Random quote: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams |