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Bill: We Want Free Media
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalizt 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: December 2198
Description[?]:
| Privatize the Nationally owned TVs and Radios to give more competition to the private sector. TV is a popular medium, as Radio is. It is 'people's ownership' in a certain sense and, if they don't want low-cultured trash, the market will adapt to this. No need of State intervention for any issue. Competition will be the absolute reason for which companies try to offer the best service to their customers. State may intervene only and only if the value of competition goes down by attempts of companies to create monopolies. Plurality of voices is the only thing that government must defend. Free the Market, Free the Media. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: All radio stations are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: All television media are private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:10:13, March 12, 2006 CET | From |  We Say So! Party | To | Debating the We Want Free Media |
| Message | The basis of your argument is flawed. The media is already free. We do not limit the number of media organisations, nor do we limit its ability to compete. What we do is provide high quality educational and informational programming to the public. If private companies also wish to provide said services then they are fully enititled to do so. Do not confuse a national broadcasting company with the freedom of the media. |
| Date | 15:28:37, March 12, 2006 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the We Want Free Media |
| Message | ^^ What he said ^^ The L-PU appears to have an irrational fear of government intervention in any aspect of life. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 132 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 182 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 86 |
| Random fact: Don't vote yes on a cabinet coalition that doesn't give you the power that you deserve. |
| Random quote: "We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice." - Friedrich August von Hayek |