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Bill: Media Content Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: RSDP - Democratic Front
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: April 2076
Description[?]:
| An Act to prohibit the publication of false information and hate speech. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:50:34, July 04, 2005 CET | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | Well? |
| Date | 16:52:15, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | No, i am for what it is currently. If the majority votes for this change, i may support it, but i believe in the sanctity of freedom of speech and i find infringements upon it from places like the EU to be undemocratic and wrong |
| Date | 18:07:48, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | Only printing proven falsehoods should be against the law, anything less infringes on freedom of speech which all Rutanians should have. |
| Date | 18:08:50, July 04, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | Freedom of speech ends were hate speech begins. |
| Date | 18:09:04, July 04, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | *where |
| Date | 18:09:38, July 04, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | It is not undemocratic, it's protecting the rights of minorities and other groups. |
| Date | 18:42:31, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Humanist Socialist Party | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | We're afraid we differ from the RSDP on this one. Speech should be free; only acts should be regulated. There is no right to not be insulted. Presumably there are already incitement to violence/murder/whatever (but not the vague "incitement to racial hatred") laws under which "dangerous" speech could be actioned anyway. |
| Date | 20:10:53, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | Speech is free, actions are not. A crime is a crime. |
| Date | 21:43:48, July 04, 2005 CET | From | New Democracy | To | Debating the Media Content Act |
| Message | This is against free speech. Thus, against. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 174 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 274 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 49 |
| Random fact: Once approved, players should copy Cultural Protocols into a bill in the debate section of their nation page, under the title of "OOC: Cultural Protocols". This bill should include links to the passed Cultural Protocol bill and the Moderation approval. |
| Random quote: "If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it." - Ken Livingstone |