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Bill: PRP'S Restoration Agenda: Libel Fairness Act of October 2203
Details
Submitted by[?]: Proletariat Revolution Party
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: June 2204
Description[?]:
| In life, in any situation, there are two things that will always be constant - lies and truths. Everything else, the shades of grey, in between fluctuates. Therefore, when it when it comes to so-called 'defamatory' remarks, it is hereby proposes that the government allow for truth to not be muzzled. The truth may not always be pretty, but muzzling the truth is censorship. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Libel laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over all defamatory remarks printed on them, even truthful ones.
Current: Individuals may sue over falsehoods printed on them.
Proposed: Individuals may sue over falsehoods and defamatory opinions printed on them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:49:05, March 22, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the PRP'S Restoration Agenda: Libel Fairness Act of October 2203 |
| Message | The existing situation does not state that lawsuits will be successful, only that a suit can be brought even if the statement is true. For example, if you stated that I no longer beat my wife, that is true but libelous in the implication that I once did so. Under the current situation, I can bring suit against you; in the case you propose, I could not. |
| Date | 21:10:49, March 22, 2006 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the PRP'S Restoration Agenda: Libel Fairness Act of October 2203 |
| Message | Well, if you no longer do, how would it be a problem? After all, the question is null and void because the printed material contains up to daye material with the relevant information and truth. And, if you have reformed, how is it a bad thing? There is no proof that you're doing it any more. Plus, in what context are you beating your wife? Are you physically beating her, sexually, mentally, or are you just beating her at various games and little mind things humans like to do? I mean, the sentence you're calling into question, without further proof is open to interpretation and your whining makes you appear thick skinned because of the nature of the language and the various ways in which the word can be interpretted. |
| Date | 01:31:37, March 23, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the PRP'S Restoration Agenda: Libel Fairness Act of October 2203 |
| Message | I'm alittle worried by this angle the PRP seems to be taking... a kind of 'if you've nothing to hide, you won't mind' approach. So much for civil liberty. |
| Date | 05:41:36, March 23, 2006 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the PRP'S Restoration Agenda: Libel Fairness Act of October 2203 |
| Message | No, we're merely saying that this person is taking a simple statement out of context, unless they can prove that there is some level of falseness to the statement. The problem is that just by picking a single line, they forget that the meaning may be lost because not all the information is there. |
| Date | 13:22:12, March 23, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the PRP'S Restoration Agenda: Libel Fairness Act of October 2203 |
| Message | And, if the case has no merit, they won't win. But that should be for courts to decide... not politicians. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 269 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 232 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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