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Bill: Falsehood and Defamatory Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Patriot 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: December 2240
Description[?]:
| TBA |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: Individuals may sue over falsehoods and defamatory opinions spoken about them, if judged to be malicious.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:30:52, May 29, 2006 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Falsehood and Defamatory Act |
| Message | Not sure what the practical difference would be between this proposal and the current situation.. Care to explain? |
| Date | 16:17:52, May 31, 2006 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Falsehood and Defamatory Act |
| Message | If its not malicious, no lawsuit. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 283 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 216 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "Religion, like capitalism, will perish in the end. We estimate the complete Terra-wide extinction of Hosianism as a religious belief by the year 4409, and in Dorvik by 4398." - Friedrich Pfeiffer, former Dorvish politician |