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Bill: Likatonian Media Standard Act of January 2211
Details
Submitted by[?]: Proletariat Revolution 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: September 2211
Description[?]:
| Despite our liberal laws regarding media content, it is in the interests of our citizens that we ensure that foreign content be regulated the same way domestic content is. Thus, should domestic laws regarding media content change, it will be subsquently applied to foreign media content without question. This is by no means an attempt to curb freedom of expression, so much as it is to set a universal standard so that there is no loophole in future legislation regarding media. This is done to encourage consistancy in the law and so that neither source is slighted come a change in domestic policy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change International media content regulation.
Old value:: International media content is free from regulation
Current: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Proposed: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:48:32, April 06, 2006 CET | From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Likatonian Media Standard Act of January 2211 |
| Message | We beleive that the Likatonian public are sophisticated enough to understand different cultural 'norms' well enough to not need the ethnic vetting that censorship will provide. |
| Date | 14:42:29, April 06, 2006 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Likatonian Media Standard Act of January 2211 |
| Message | This is not about cultural differences. This is purely about HOW the content is presented. If it contains racial/discriminatorty material, it should be subject to the same rules, especially if it is racist against our nation. |
| Date | 15:04:39, April 06, 2006 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the Likatonian Media Standard Act of January 2211 |
| Message | Free flow of information increases the progress of the sciences. |
| Date | 15:22:12, April 06, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Likatonian Media Standard Act of January 2211 |
| Message | Information must be free! |
| Date | 17:30:58, April 06, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Likatonian Media Standard Act of January 2211 |
| Message | The Axis Mundi Revolution! believes that Likatonia is NOT a police state, not a dictatorship, and not a totalitarian regime. We wonder, then, why the PRP wishes us to censor external data sources? |
| Date | 19:00:08, April 06, 2006 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Likatonian Media Standard Act of January 2211 |
| Message | Fine... Do as you will, but remember this: you all have changed policies over the years and have decided to make the media more liberal. I remember when almost none would budge on liberalising the internet. Now, I'm not saying to censor Likatonian material, all I'm saying is that when you've got foreign media, you're dealing with media that is regulated by different laws and what may be acceptable in one place (ie: racism against one group) may not be acceptable here. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 144 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 357 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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