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Bill: Bill for an Honest Media
Details
Submitted by[?]: Front for State Prosperity
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 2223
Description[?]:
| Most people like reading the rags, but big business has a stranglehold on media freedoms and uses it to advance their nefarious damaging causes. As such the Front for State Prosperity is proposing to weaken for-profit media and outlaw the publishing of proven falsehoods. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All television media are private.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Article 2
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: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Article 3
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 | 07:30:44, May 04, 2006 CET | From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Bill for an Honest Media |
| Message | 1. We can't support. Why we should pump taxpayer dollars into something the private industry does is something wasteful. 2. We are beleivers that the truth will prevail in all things, even if falsehoods are published. Some 'falsehoods' are purely subjective, and if we start censoring the media, where will it end? 3. We feel that the Likatonian public are sophisticated and worldly enough to appreciate that different 'norms' apply to foriegn television content and make exceptions. Also, we resent this idea to stifle freedom of speech. |
| Date | 10:53:57, May 04, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Bill for an Honest Media |
| Message | While we in the Axis Mundi Revolution! are surprised to see this 'totalitarian' angle from the FSP, we are willing to support the FSP platform of 'constructive restriction'. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 155 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 219 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 127 |
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