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Bill: Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian 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: January 2169
Description[?]:
| An act to free up what can be shown and when. |
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 has no position on who may use or what is published on the internet.
Proposed: The government has no position on who may use or what is published on the internet.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding sexually explicit material on broadcast television.
Old value:: Sexually explicit material is allowed, but violent or hard core pornography is banned.
Current: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Proposed: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The time at which sexually explicit content may be shown on broadcast television (if allowed).
Old value:: Sexually explicit content may only be shown during hours that very few children watch. Nudity may be shown all day long.
Current: Sexually explicit content or nudity may only be shown during hours that very few children watch television
Proposed: Sexually explicit content may be shown all day long.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:10:00, January 07, 2006 CET | From |  Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | The current legislation is silly, if we are to allow the viewing of pornography, which the Libertarians back as a personal freedom issue, then why have silly petty restrictions that really only cater to the prudish. Allow all erotic programmes to be shown, if you do not like what is being broadcast, then do not watch it! Equally, it really should not be the role of government to legislate as to when a child can watch TV. In our opinion that is the role of the parents. Therefore return responsibility for what a child views to the parent and give boradcasting companies the freedom to boradcast such programmes whenever they feel they will have an audience. |
| Date | 00:10:51, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Global Democracy Movement Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | Against this bill. It's not a problem of not watching, it's a problem of avoiding that some one be able to watch it wanting or not at certain time of the day. It's a moral standard and a standard procedure to do it so. We like the way the law is. |
| Date | 00:28:02, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | No. This cannot be supported. We need a return to moral basics. |
| Date | 01:14:46, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Anti-Fascist Communist Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | NO |
| Date | 12:38:10, January 08, 2006 CET | From |  First Socialist Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | You are alone in wanting show school children hard core pornography, you paedophile. |
| Date | 13:49:22, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | OOC/ FUCK YOU ! |
| Date | 13:54:43, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | With that last ridiculous attack The Libertarian Party will no longer even recognise the existence of the SPH. OOC/ I personally as stated on another bil find such accusations repugnant and extremely ofensive. This just shows the depths some people will go to in a GAME to offend. Such peope are not worthy of my thoughts or my efforts to play this game. I demand an immediate apology, and I ask all other sane people to condemn the SPH for such a totally outrageous accusation. If no apology is forthcoming I will be taking this up with the game mods. /OOC |
| Date | 14:00:13, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | This is terribly offensive, both in and out of character. The person behind the Socialist Party needs to get his ideas sorted. I am with the Libertarian Party, and refuse to recognize them as a decent human being. |
| Date | 23:57:19, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Global Democracy Movement Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | We can not let this slide by, we can fool around the game, take it more seriously, take it not seriously, but never, never be offensive, we can't let that this type of things keep in a middle of a simple game. The statement of the SPH were deliberated to offend the LP and the person that is behind it, the player, so me as a player, and as a party in this game and out of it, demand that the SPH apologizes to the LP and the person behind it. We can't tolerate this type of insult's, not when the person that leads the LP had allready told that wouldn't tolerate that type of insult, i will not tolerate that, and no one should, this is a game, no place to insult, or be agressive, verbal agression is one type of violence too, and it should be condemend and not tolerated. This type of things make me want to leave this petty stupid game, that some people take to serious, and other take it to bad. |
| Date | 10:27:37, January 09, 2006 CET | From | First Socialist Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | OOC: I apologise, I did not mean to offend IRL. This was a purely IC comment. |
| Date | 17:15:41, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | OOC: Somebody needs to go take a cold shower and cool down and calm down, i dont really think he ment that as a RL insult. I mean seriously i dont think anybody in there right mind would do that, i mean i could say your a wako Fascist in the game and not mean that your a RL Nazi.../OOC |
| Date | 20:21:46, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | OOC Accepted! I will return the apology as in hindsight perhaps I was being a little oversensitive. SPH your apology is accepted and as far as I am concerned that is the end of the matter. /OOC |
| Date | 21:54:28, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | I still think it was a little too extreme, especially for a game, in character or out of character. |
| Date | 00:54:00, January 10, 2006 CET | From | Democratic-Republican Party | To | Debating the Erotic Broadcasting Deregulation Act |
| Message | #1 We cannot be reconciled to, considering that this has nothing to do with erotic broadcasting, but has to do with actually illegal activity, such as paedphilia and child abuse and online bullying. Online pornography is not tracked via this law... And, also, I really don't want to turn on the TV at all hours and be exposed to some naked person's arse. I happen to have strict standards about such in my home and many parents probably agree. If people want to see it all hours: buy a tape and don't force us all to suffer through it! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 106 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 187 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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