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Bill: Legalize private TV
Details
Submitted by[?]: Patriotic Libertarian 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: February 2071
Description[?]:
| We need free media - it's the basis of democracy. Therefore I'd like to suggest a compromise for the socialists - leave a subsized national TV and radio station and allow all other private ones to work. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All television stations are owned by the state.
Current: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:37:06, June 22, 2005 CET |
From |  Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | This model works very well with the BBC in Britain. And so I fully agree. Anyone know a better outlet? Has anyone even seen Cuban state TV? Freedom and fairness is best achieved with a bit of both systems, side by side. |
| Date | 21:41:32, June 22, 2005 CET |
From | International Socialist Party | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | Party Line which Partys line
there are more than one socialist party so are all giving fair footage? Lets face the facts if you want to have a campaign to bring back Privatisation i'll provide the collecting tins! |
| Date | 21:43:20, June 22, 2005 CET |
From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | No need to privatise whatever we have already. Just not ban private organisations from competing too. What do you fear our public hearing about? Why must you control the opiate of the masses? |
| Date | 21:45:34, June 22, 2005 CET |
From | International Socialist Party | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | Ardverts? i dont want big business running the show or the new Oligarchy i want the tax payer deciding so for example you would be entitled to some media access based on you support in the Regions |
| Date | 23:54:33, June 22, 2005 CET |
From | Democratic Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | Just because it is publicly owned doedn't mean there are any government restriction on content and this was specificially stated in the original bill. |
| Date | 00:07:42, June 23, 2005 CET |
From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | We agree absolutely media must be free to allow democracy , thankyou for taking our standpoint and admitting both corporate and state controlled media is a bad thing. Here in endralon we enjoy a state funded completely free media network , removing both of the aforementioned bias options . Good work PLP theres hope for you yet ^^ ... although I think you hit the wrong proposal choice ^^ .
ok ok ill stop playing around now . MLC votes no. |
| Date | 01:59:28, June 23, 2005 CET |
From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | heh typical , we explain carefully why it isnt anti speech and then you ignore it and come back with a one liner , you truly are a great "conservative" representative. competition is just a magic word capitalists use to try and justify everything , the BBC is known worldwide as one of the best most impartial source of news and broadcasting yet it has no competition and no private funding, competition provides an insentive but it is by no means the only insentive, there are many others which are much less haphazard. |
| Date | 16:16:42, June 23, 2005 CET |
From | Democratic Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | The BBC's income is not dependent on viewing figures, it receives a set amount of money from the state, which means it is certainly not facing the same competition as private chnnels do. |
| Date | 22:01:54, June 23, 2005 CET |
From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | We HAVE free media and we HAVE free speech. Government censorship of the media was absolutely banned a long time ago.
Besides, how exactly does private TV count as "free speech"? Are you suggesting that ANYONE could start his own private TV station? Please... You know as well as I do that only the very rich can afford their own TV station. Thus private television is not free speech, it is a privilege for the wealthy. |
| Date | 22:21:27, June 23, 2005 CET |
From | Patriotic Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | only at an overregulated market with licenses the wealthiest can only afford to make a tv station. and what's wrong with someone rich? rich deserve to be rich! |
| Date | 23:48:18, June 23, 2005 CET |
From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Legalize private TV | | Message | Uh, right, so if the market isn't regulated, any average guy can afford to build his own TV station? Have you been smoking something?
By the way, licences are required to insure that no one can, for example, JAM your signal.
And, even leaving aside the fact that the rich most certainly DO NOT deserve to be rich (since their wealth was accumulated through the exploitation of the working class), the fact remains that something can't be called "freedom of speech" when only a small minority - in this case, the rich - can ever have access to it. |
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