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=== Department for Public Content Control === | === Department for Public Content Control === | ||
The Department for Public Content Control (DPCC) is responsible for overseeing the publication of art, literature, television, music, video games, and other forms of media and ensuring these forms of media conform to social and legal expectations of provision for public morality. The Department does not oversee the individual production, release, or sale of materials and media, but rather is responsible for ensuring that only compliant materials are published and disseminated by media companies, internet services, and the like. Accordingly, when media companies seek to play a particular song, display a movie, or otherwise use media, they get approval from the DPCC. These materials are typically sent in batches to be reviewed by the DPCC, and material reviews typically take a week depending on the length of the media. | The Department for Public Content Control (DPCC) is responsible for overseeing the publication of art, literature, television, music, video games, and other forms of media and ensuring these forms of media conform to social and legal expectations of provision for public morality. The Department does not oversee the individual production, release, or sale of materials and media, but rather is responsible for ensuring that only compliant materials are published and disseminated by media companies, internet services, and the like. Accordingly, when media companies seek to play a particular song, display a movie, or otherwise use media, they get approval from the DPCC. These materials are typically sent in batches to be reviewed by the DPCC, and material reviews typically take a week depending on the length of the media. The Department typically operates on behalf of the Censors in a regulatory capacity. | ||
The Department also encourages {{wp|Industry self-regulation|self-regulation}} by signing memorandums of understanding with major broadcast companies and online services to not disseminate, publish, or otherwise spread materials that would likely be subject to censorship. These memorandums typically bind the publisher or service to the National Best Practices for Good Conduct, which prohibits the use of profanity, the negative portrayal of family life, irreverence for God and religion, illicit sex, drunkenness and biochemical addiction, presentation of cruelty, detailed techniques of crime, the use of horror for its own sake, and the negative portrayal of law enforcement officials, among others. Most memorandums also regulate how performers should dress and move to be within the "bounds of decency". | The Department also encourages {{wp|Industry self-regulation|self-regulation}} by signing memorandums of understanding with major broadcast companies and online services to not disseminate, publish, or otherwise spread materials that would likely be subject to censorship. These memorandums typically bind the publisher or service to the National Best Practices for Good Conduct, which prohibits the use of profanity, the negative portrayal of family life, irreverence for God and religion, illicit sex, drunkenness and biochemical addiction, presentation of cruelty, detailed techniques of crime, the use of horror for its own sake, and the negative portrayal of law enforcement officials, among others. Most memorandums also regulate how performers should dress and move to be within the "bounds of decency". | ||
=== Department for the Administration of the Census === | === Department for the Administration of the Census === | ||
The Department for the Administration of the Census is an administrative agency responsible for collecting, collating, retaining, and disseminating information in Urcea's decennial censuses. Accordingly, the Department primarily serves in an archival and data analysis role outside of the decennial cycle and also provides annual population growth estimates. The Department typically adds about three million part time paid census takers in years ending with "9", with census takers visiting Urceans in person as well as digitally. Following the completion of the Census, the Department presents its findings to the Censors who hire independent analysts to audit the results before giving it a final seal of approval. The Censors then present the Census to the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]] for the [[Concilium_Daoni#Apportionment_process|Concilium Daoni apportionment process]]. | |||
=== Department for Ecclesiastical Crime Management === | === Department for Ecclesiastical Crime Management === | ||
=== Department for Appeals === | === Department for Appeals === | ||
The Department for Appeals is responsible for handling appeals from producers of media with respect to an order of censorship. The Department operates outside the normal bounds of the Office and is made up of personnel appointed with the approval of the [[Chancellor and Temporary President]]. Accordingly, the Department works to impartially determine whether or not an appeal has merit and can recommend to the Censors to repeal a certain prohibition on dissemination of materials. The Department typically considers two types of Appeals, the first being an appeal that the free speech or free practice of religion value of the material outweighs the potential moral harm caused by the media in question, and the second being what is called a "cognitive appeal", meaning that either the Department for Public Content Control either did not understand the material in question or that the author of the media had no immoral intent and could be read through a lens which did not harm public morality. The Department of Appeals is also legally required to cooperate with litigation filed against the Office of the Censor, bringing an appeal to the appeal to the [[Judiciary of Urcea]]. | |||
[[Category: Government of Urcea]] | [[Category: Government of Urcea]] | ||