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Bill: Media Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Paraplu 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: November 2338
Description[?]:
| A bill to put a stop to the freedom to lie to, confuse, and freely offend other people in our nation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Libel laws.
Old value:: The nation has no laws regarding libel.
Current: Individuals may sue over falsehoods printed on them.
Proposed: Individuals may sue over falsehoods printed on them.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Current: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: The nation has no laws regarding slander.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:05:18, January 02, 2007 CET | From | Elite Sinn Fein | To | Debating the Media Act |
| Message | Take article 3 out and you'll have my vote. |
| Date | 01:04:03, January 02, 2007 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Media Act |
| Message | Wow. For such a rampantly capitalistic party, you really have a knack for attacking freedom of speech. |
| Date | 01:08:57, January 02, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the Media Act |
| Message | Who said i was so capatalistic? |
| Date | 01:37:40, January 02, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the Media Act |
| Message | And, Libel and slander rights are not included in the freedom of speech |
| Date | 00:55:35, January 03, 2007 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Media Act |
| Message | Freedom of speech is being able to say what you want. Any restriction on saying what you want, true or not (after all, who is able to define truth in an absolute way), is a restriction on freedom of speech. And you're rampantly capitalist because you called public healthcare "bad", which is the kind of dribble you hear from rampantly capitalist parties. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 100 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players who consent to a particular role-play by acknowledging it in their own role-play cannot then disown it or withdraw their consent from it. For example, if player A role-plays the assassination of player B's character, and player B then acknowledges the assassination in a news post, but then backtracks and insists the assassination did not happen, then he will be required under the rules to accept the validity of the assassination role-play. |
| Random quote: "I'll see you in the Palace in Kivonia once we win this war... and I'm ecstatic to be the one to execute you. Sleep well." - Queen Annalise, former Telamonese monarch |