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Bill: Media Content Regulation Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Internationalist 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: October 4485
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Current: It is forbidden to criticize the government, or publish any material that the government does not approve of.
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 | 16:19:06, November 14, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Internationalist Party | To | Debating the Media Content Regulation Bill |
| Message | Allowing the proliferation of hate speech permits the normalization of extremist views, furthering the divide among people in society. Hate when left unchecked can lead to violence and a possible collapse of the democratic order. Hate speech must therefore be restricted in order to maintain harmony, inclusion, and respect among social groups. 1. Hate speech is defined as expression that attacks people based on their gender identity, family lineage, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, race, ethnicity, age, or sex. This definition shall also include genocide denial. 2. Factual statements, including those based on statistics or scientific evidence, shall not be considered hate speech when communicated in the public interest and not to seed division. 3. There shall be no criminal penalties for hate speech expressed privately, such as those communicated in the home. This exemption does not include messages sent via telecommunications or other information delivery services that are used for harassment. Criminal prosecutions should focus on expression published in the public media. 4. The penalties of hate speech shall be limited to fines not exceeding $10,000 INS and prison sentences no more than two years. Other penalties may include bans on media publications guilty of two or more hate speech offenses. These bans may also extend to individuals. Such bans may not exceed 5 years in duration. The Legislature is permitted to enact further restrictions after a successful conviction at the discretion of a 2/3 majority in extreme cases. Legislature may also enact restrictions, including travel bans or deportations, on non-citizens with a 2/3 majority vote in the event hate speech is used abroad or domestically. 5. At the discretion of the courts, hate speech offenses may be pardoned if the offender demonstrates genuine regret, is willing to perform community service to make amends, and has expressed no intention to re-offend. |
| Date | 13:12:50, November 15, 2018 CET | From | Liberté et Égalité | To | Debating the Media Content Regulation Bill |
| Message | First, we are very happy from our party, beacuse Hegemony use arguments and explains his own ideas. It is something unique and we hope that its laws follow this path. Now, we can not avoid, in turn, seeing a certain anti-liberal bias in this project. Limiting freedom will not create a democratic confederation. The only thing that will do is that certain sectors resent and stop seeing democracy as an option. As a Parliament, we have to be very aware. Hate speech does not exist. There is a political discourse. It can be heard. It can be rejected. What can not do is censor. The speeches that attack people are a challenge for any democracy. But it is a challenge that faces with more democracy, with information, with more freedom. Any censorship of freedom of expression leads to violence Samira Avdeeva |
| Date | 16:46:53, November 15, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Internationalist Party | To | Debating the Media Content Regulation Bill |
| Message | Limiting freedom is needed for preserve democracy. Unlimited freedom of speech leads to violence. |
| Date | 16:48:07, November 15, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Internationalist Party | To | Debating the Media Content Regulation Bill |
| Message | Freedom of speech shouldn't be unlimited,this is not liberal idea,this is anarchistic idea ! |
| Date | 16:51:54, November 15, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Internationalist Party | To | Debating the Media Content Regulation Bill |
| Message | against false information and hate speech is protecting freedom. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 251 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 344 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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