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Bill: Pornographic Material Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Green Party (FGP)
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 3826
Description[?]:
| This proposal recognizes that minors have access to the internet. It would be very difficult and uncalled for to punish minors who view pornography. As such this proposal seems to be a reasonable change from current laws. If adults wish to punish their children for viewing pornography this would be up to them, no legal action should be taken against anyone who views consenting pornographic videos of adults (people 18 and older). To accommodate this change we wish to leave production regulations and laws to local governments. This way a locality that wishes to be stricter on production could choose to do so without national government interference in the matter. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The distribution, purchasing and possession of material depicting pornographic acts.
Old value:: Pornography depicting consenting adults is legal for adults.
Current: All forms of pornography are illegal.
Proposed: Pornography depicting consenting adults is legal for everyone.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to the production of pornography.
Old value:: The production of pornography is treated as any other business.
Current: Pornography may not be produced in the nation.
Proposed: Local governments establish policies on the production of pornography.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:13:49, April 04, 2015 CET | From |  Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Pornographic Material Reform |
| Message | "No. Again, this waters the law down on protecting children. The criticism of the LPS' child abuse laws was not that children have access to pornographic films but that children were FEATURED in pornographic films. The Green's own credibility is destroyed by their insistence on protecting paedophiles by their alliance with the LPS." Astryd Goldsea, Unionist Leader |
| Date | 21:49:42, April 04, 2015 CET | From | Federal Green Party (FGP) | To | Debating the Pornographic Material Reform |
| Message | How does this water down the law protecting children? If this law passes it does not change the fact that only consenting adults may be featured in pornographic films. We agree with you that minors should not be featured in the films, thus why we have proposed this reform. |
| Date | 22:36:33, April 04, 2015 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Pornographic Material Reform |
| Message | "Why reform the system at all? At the moment only adults may be depicted in or gain access to pornography. That is basic common sense." Astryd Goldsea, Unionist Leader |
| Date | 23:23:46, April 04, 2015 CET | From | Federal Green Party (FGP) | To | Debating the Pornographic Material Reform |
| Message | Children can gain access to pornography as well via the internet. This bill would assure that they are not punished for viewing such material. |
| Date | 02:15:20, April 05, 2015 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the Pornographic Material Reform |
| Message | Child pornographers could find no better friend than with the FGRP and LPS. |
| Date | 04:15:32, April 05, 2015 CET | From | Federal Green Party (FGP) | To | Debating the Pornographic Material Reform |
| Message | How so? What does this bill have to do with child pornographers? Not a damn thing. |
| Date | 12:08:52, April 05, 2015 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Pornographic Material Reform |
| Message | "It allows paedophiles t expose young children to sexual imagery and pornography. The current law bars that. Children are protected from prosecution from the law, again I really shouldn't have to explain that to a legislator, and so even IF the courts decided to envoke that part of the current law, it is their guardians, parents or whoever they were in the care of at the time who would be prosecuted for negligence NOT the child as your fearmongering would have people believe. Shoddy understanding of the law, shoddy protections for children, shoddy moral compasses. They ought to be ashamed of their lacklustre reaction to the pro-paedophile lobby that is the LPS. Current laws are the MAXIMUM protection for children. Anything less puts them at risk of abuse." Astryd Goldsea, Unionist Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 310 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 215 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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