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Bill: Media Publication Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Patriotic Party of Baltusia
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: February 4094
Description[?]:
| To change the law to make it unacceptable for newspapers and other media to publish hate speech. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Current: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:25:17, September 21, 2016 CET | From | Revolutionary Anarchist Black Army(RABA) | To | Debating the Media Publication Bill |
| Message | THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS AND UNDEMOCRATIC, THE FACISTS IN RULING IN THIS COUNTRY FROM NOW ON, WORKERS UNITE, PROLITARIANS, CITIZENS UNITE AGAINST TERROR |
| Date | 11:20:22, September 22, 2016 CET | From | Patriotic Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Media Publication Bill |
| Message | Mr Speaker, This bill is needed to stop the insidious spread of hate speech from extreme sources - religious and otherwise. This does not stifle the freedom of true and honest speech but it does stop the ability to spread malicious and unwarranted hatefulness which calls on others to carry out destructive and unspeakable acts or to bear prejudice against others in society. There is no room for it in Baltusia - and those who propagate it should not be given a platform. Thank you President Bathsheba Grey |
| Date | 17:04:34, September 22, 2016 CET | From | Revolutionary Anarchist Black Army(RABA) | To | Debating the Media Publication Bill |
| Message | err, You have freedom of speech or you don't, what is considered hatefull speech? who defines hatefull speech. How should you enforce this? how do you dertermine what is right or wrong information? This bill makes it possible for the state and corporations to sue independent authors and ideas. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 425 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 185 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 90 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy." - Brian Mulroney |