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Bill: Media Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic-Republican 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 2201
Description[?]:
| We should allow newspapers to post whatever they wish, even proven falsities. If they continue to do such, then people will not read them or will read them for that specific reason. If they speak malicious falsehoods on a person, then the offended party may sue. |
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 laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Proposed: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:27:39, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Media Freedom Act |
| Message | No. To publich a proven falsehood is deception. |
| Date | 23:00:22, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Media Freedom Act |
| Message | To knowingly publish a falshood can inflict harm on another individual so the state has the right to prevent that. e.g. Eat our cyanide it will make your manhood double in size, guaranteed or we will give you 20,000 HLR! (Note the above example is NOT accurate!) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 105 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 225 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players consent to the reasonable and predictable consequences of the role-play they consent to. For example, players who role-play their characters as committing criminal offences should expect those characters to experience the predictable judicial consequences of that. |
| Random quote: "Most politicians hold their fingers to the wind, and if we win we'll be showing them a lot of wind." - Ralph Nader |