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media overregulation seemo press freedom conference, 23 sept.
2014, buc
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case study 1: THE Positive News law
Gheorghe Funar Ioan Ghie
2008: Televisions are to broapositive and negative news equal
proportions.
Among others: a provision stlated psychiatric controls for
jo
lists every three years. The media criticized the law.
Most of the voices in the pub(commentators on blogs etc.) athat
the amount of blood, crimon TV is much too high and som
thing should be done to decrea
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case study 1: THE Positive News law
Gheorghe Funar Ioan Ghie
What
was theoutcome
?
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case study 1: THE Positive News law
Gheorghe Funar Ioan Ghie
The law was voted by both chbers of the Parliament.
However, fortunately, the lawdeclared unconstitutional by
thstitutional Court.
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case study 2: monitoring the internet
Lia Vasilescu Carmen Moldovan
2010: several women MPs haidea to discourage/ban bad lanand
profanity online.
The idea of an authority suppto monitor all the conversation
social networks, blogs, newspaforums was promoted.
At a certain point, the monitwas to be done by CNA, the Roan
Ofcom.
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case study 2: monitoring the internet
Lia Vasilescu Carmen Moldovan
What
was the
outcome
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case study 2: monitoring the internet
Lia Vasilescu Carmen Moldovan
The Romanian Ofcom was teby the idea, it said publicly it doeven
have the resources to moTV
A public debate followed: alt
totally unpractical, the idea hadsupporters.
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the issue
Can EU democracies avoid
overregulation and defcient regulatio
simply by being EU democracies?
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case study 4: hungary
Victor Orban
2010: a law that threatens nmedia that engages in
unbalareporting
The entire media (incl. print line) is regulated and
monitore
the Media Council 2013: another law, limiting a
to public information, was pass
2014: a 40% tax on advertisin
Various actual consequencesthe laws
The public is somewhat satis
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case study 3: napoleons france
Marat
1800: Napoleon restricted thnumber of published newspapefrom 73
to 13.
The public opinion applaude- French were fed-up with Mara
Desmoulins and others harang
Desmoulins Bonaparte
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Conclusion
Democracy doesnt prevent overregulat
in itself
Public opinion may approve decient la
and legislation in excess.
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