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Bill: A Free Media
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Conservative 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: March 2073
Description[?]:
| While protecting quality and editorial neutrality with a BBC style state funded TV and Radio system, we also propose to allow private channels to allow people greater choice. What is to be feared of quality subscription channels like HBO? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are owned by the state.
Current: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Article 2
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 | 04:00:07, June 27, 2005 CET | From |  Democratic Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | We oppose this as we believe all parts of the media should be under the democratic control of the population and not run in a dictatorial way by any corporation. A high degree of choice is already provided since anyone is free to set up a non-profit making channel as long as it remains under democratic management. |
| Date | 13:19:06, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | Our media is entirely state-funded, not state-controlled. What's wrong with that? |
| Date | 13:19:42, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Patriotic Libertarian Party | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | in democracy people vote what they want to watch using their remote controls :) |
| Date | 13:25:19, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | Good. Then we have democracy, because we have a multitude of public channels. |
| Date | 13:49:39, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Patriotic Libertarian Party | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | Ahh, you're beggining to get it :D Free market is democracy - people buy things and this way decide what is needed and what is not. |
| Date | 15:21:22, June 27, 2005 CET | From | International Socialist Party | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | Free market is Democracy? Ay Arse. You cnat Have Socialism without Democracy You cant have Democracy without Socialism. |
| Date | 23:47:38, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | What "All television stations are owned by the state" brings to mind to me is that citizens are NOT allowed to start their own channels, and instead have to put up with whatever's already there. However if the views coming across here are true, then the situation is better than that. I wonder how you people tell though. If you had to categorise North Korea's media, it would fall under that category. Meanwhile even China, to my knowledge, fits into the other one which I am suggesting. As does indeed Britian, which has the BBC. |
| Date | 22:07:32, June 28, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the A Free Media |
| Message | Well I've proposed (in the forums) the creation of a new proposal/bill/issue-thing that would clarify the matter. It will allow us to set the level of media censorship by the government. So we can have state-owned media but no censorship. North Korea has state-owned media with heavy censorship. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 215 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 304 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 140 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "Idealism is fine; but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes prohibitive." - William F. Buckley, Jr. |