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Bill: Slander law Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vanuku Nationalists 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 2234
Description[?]:
| This act will go with the popular opinion on Slander Laws |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over falsehoods and defamatory opinions spoken about them, if judged to be malicious.
Current: Individuals may sue over falsehoods and defamatory opinions spoken about them, if judged to be malicious.
Proposed: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:21:17, May 28, 2006 CET | From | Segue Democratic Alliance | To | Debating the Slander law Act |
| Message | Can someone clarify exactly what this (evidently popular) change in wordinhg actually means? |
| Date | 08:00:50, May 28, 2006 CET | From | Social Devolutionist | To | Debating the Slander law Act |
| Message | I would assume, that the difference is- As it stands both malicious falsehoods ("John Henry is taking bribes from the mafia" (I don't believe this and it's not true)) and malicious defamatory opinions ("John Henry is a cad, who does no credit to the Vanukun Cricket team (an opinion, therefore not demonstrably false, but said malciously)), are sueable as slander. Under the proposal only the first would be. I would suggest that the change (whilst popular) is not a good one, and will oppose this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 196 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 364 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair." - George Burns |