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Bill: PCA bill - 'Unshackling the Media' 1
Details
Submitted by[?]: Permissive Social Union
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: August 2341
Description[?]:
| A free flow of information is necessary for any democracy. We propose the following. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: All television media are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding sexually explicit material on broadcast television.
Old value:: Sexually explicit material is allowed, but violent or hard core pornography is banned.
Current: Sexually explicit material is allowed, but violent or hard core pornography is banned.
Proposed: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The time at which sexually explicit content may be shown on broadcast television (if allowed).
Old value:: Sexually explicit content may only be shown during hours that very few children watch. Nudity may be shown all day long.
Current: Sexually explicit content or nudity may only be shown during hours that very few children watch television
Proposed: Sexually explicit content may be shown all day long.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:43:39, January 06, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the PCA bill - 'Unshackling the Media' 1 |
| Message | The LITP would oppose this Bill. |
| Date | 21:08:37, January 06, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the PCA bill - 'Unshackling the Media' 1 |
| Message | We see no way in which it shackles the media for there to be non-profit groups running some televsion stations, but private entities free to run their own. We would have a hard choice on how to vote on the other two articles, as the desires of our constituency would conflict with the desires of most in our caucus for some level of moderation. We would probably be willing to vote in favor of a bill that let all pornography on television if the hours were to remain limited, and even possibly the converse, of keeping it to soft core but removing the hourly restriction; but we would have a problem with the passage of both proposals, with unlimited violent pornography all day. |
| Date | 22:07:13, January 06, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the PCA bill - 'Unshackling the Media' 1 |
| Message | We feel responsibility for moderating what children see on TV rests solely with the parents. We also recognise that no one is forced to watch TV. |
| Date | 22:35:24, January 06, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the PCA bill - 'Unshackling the Media' 1 |
| Message | We might buy that argument if we weren't speaking of violent pornography. Violent pornography depicts what appears to be rape. We believe it might encourage rape. We do not accept the claims some make that all pornography does, as any that is merely arousing but not violent might promote sex (which we have no problem with) but not rape. If the idea were merely to let soft-core pornography on television all day long, and Article 1 were not in the bill, we could probably vote in favor of the proposal and allow parents to monitor what their children watch. The same would probably be true with all pornography but only late at night. However, we cannot support combining the two. As it stands we cannot vote for it. |
| Date | 10:47:31, January 07, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the PCA bill - 'Unshackling the Media' 1 |
| Message | In the interests of raising the profile of our somewhat new party, we bring this to the vote regardless. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 138 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 61 |
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