[PASSED] GA Resolution: Protecting Press Freedoms

[Lenlyvit]

Protecting Press Freedoms

A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category:Education and Creativity

Area of Effect: Free Press

Proposed by: Hulldom

The General Assembly,

Noting that GAR#155: “Freedom of the Press” has been repealed,

Ascertaining that press freedoms are therefore not currently protected by the World Assembly,

Determined to ensure that media in member states continues to have robust protections which allow it to operate with little regulation, and

Committed to the idea that citizens of member states should have free access to the media, hereby:

1. Declares that member states may not prevent the reporting of information whose reporting is necessary for the wellbeing of society as a whole or which may be of interest to the public.

2. Allows member states to restrict the dissemination of reporting by journalists or news organizations for purposes permitted by extant World Assembly legislation.

3. Orders that journalists or news organizations not be:

a. subject to civil or criminal penalties for the content they produce by member state governments beyond the exceptions nations may avail themselves of in clause (2), or

b. required to produce material reflecting any particular ideology or viewpoint excepting that which journalists agree to do so contractually.

4. Requires that news organizations:

a. create content warnings for material that may not be suitable for consumption by minors,

b. not prevent citizens from accessing content created by themselves or any journalist affiliated with them except to prevent individuals below the age of majority from accessing content inappropriate for consumption by minors, and

c. implement said content warnings, subject to the discretion of each news organization.

Co-authors: Wymondham, Attempted Socialism


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[Pantso]

"A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts." ?

I can see some ancillary benefit to education and the arts, but this looks like copy/paste from another proposal that was never removed . . .

[Astrobolt]

Pantso , That is text that is automatically generated by the game, based on the category the resolution is being submitted in. It doesn’t really have bearing on the actual content of the resolution.

[Jabberwocky]

While I'm in favor, I recognize the right of tyrants to suppress this sort of thing.