An Amendment to Expand Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Information
BE IT ENACTED BY THE STATE OF FIRESTONE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SEC. 1.
(a) The State of Firestone Bill of Rights shall be amended.
(b) Section I of the Bill of Rights shall now state:
Citizens shall be free of prosecution when expressing an opinion. The impediment of freedom of speech is a crime. Defamation and slander are not illegal unless under special circumstances if set by Congress. The deletion of wall posts without the permission of the poster is forbidden; however a wall post may be deleted freely if it is spam, a scam, or is not official to the State of Firestone. Furthermore, press agencies have the freedom of press and the unalienable right to report news without fear of government interference or censorship: no legislation can impede on the right to publish. Freedom of Speech will only be restricted by the ROBLOX Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy; although no individual may be prosecuted in a court of law for violating standards set by the ROBLOX Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy. The use of external communications or sites, outside of ROBLOX, as evidence in a court of law for instances of slander, defamation and/or harassment is not valid and such evidence are to be dismissed. Law enforcement agencies and their officers are obligated to yield parts of their right to speech upon a citizen’s request to know their name, callsign, and/or badge number, and they must oblige; however they are not obligated to so in a situation deemed simply too intense and pressing for such, with reasoning plausible, and may delay its provision until the intense and pressing situation is ended.
(c) Section V of the Bill of Rights shall now state:
All individuals shall have the right to remain silent. No individual may be charged or prosecuted for retaining silence. No individual shall be forced or held to commit any act without the due process of law. No individual shall ever be forced or held to answer or speak to authorities, whether it be to prevent self-incrimination or for other reasoning. “Self-incrimination” refers to: “acts or declarations either as testimony at trial or prior to trial by which one implicates himself/herself in a crime, or having committed a crime.” All individuals have the right not to testify against themselves, and any testimony provided by an individual against themselves while being coerced by force or threats shall not be admissible as evidence for conviction of a crime.
(d) Section X of the Bill of Rights shall now state:
All citizens have the freedom of information. Should a citizen request for information that is actively collected to be released, the relevant department, agency, entity, etc. shall be obligated to release the requested information, if possible. Classified information, however, must remain classified and not given to unauthorized entities until such a time it is deemed safe to release. All information and sorts of the Judicial Branch and its courts must be accessible by the public; no information relating to the Judicial Branch and its courts may be made private nor classified. All citizens have the right to know about courts and its processes, and judges are obligated to answer questions about the courts if possible. The Supreme Court is obligated to ensure all rulings and interpretations put forth by the Supreme Court are accessible by the public.
SEC. 2. This legislation shall go into effect immediately.
SEC. 3. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Respectfully submitted to the State of Firestone Congress,
Chief Sponsor:
Governor Rolerain |