Censorship in Great Scorria

Censorship in Great Scorria has been present since around 1850 and is currently managed by the Federal Office of Media Classification under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act of 1991.
Over the years, Great Scorria has gone through many iterations of censorship legislation. What began in the 1850s as vague and weak legislation was repeatedly updated with each iteration of censorship legislation addressing perceived shortcomings of the previous legislation. Notable changes in Great Scorrian censorship legislation include the continued attempts to give an objective criterion for determining whether something should be censored and the establishment of a centralized body that handles most censorship matters. These iterations adapted Great Scorria legislation to changing times, and moved censorship in Great Scorria in a more liberal direction.
The Federal Office of Media Classification (FOMC) is the government agency that is currently responsible for classification of all films, videos, publications, and some video games in Great Scorria. It was created by the aforementioned Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1991 and is an independent federal entity. The head of the FOMC is called the Master Censor (known as "FOMC Administrator" between 1991 and 2019), maintaining a title that has described the government officer in charge of censorship in Great Scorria since 1916.
==Legislation==
===2019-date: after Kotaro and Canterbury===
==Censorship by medium==
===Film===
===Theater===
Theater does not appear to be a medium that was actively censored and there seem to be relatively few instances of attempted theater censorship in Great Scorria.
One such example was in 1985, before the 1986 presidential elections that spelled the debut of New Democracy's regime. The play, Oppression, written for a demonstration about freedom of speech, was witnessed with potential concerns from the Kimberly and federal governments, but nothing happened, apart from limited press carriage and spreading by the so-called "word-of-mouth".
===Internet===
Great Scorria actively monitors and censors its citizens usage of the internet. Since 2010, Great Scorria has engaged in the filtering of web requests to any site on a non-public blacklist. This filtering only applies if the user received internet service from an internet service provider who has elected to participate in the filtering. The Department of Internal Affairs runs the filtering system.
In March 2019, the government called the country's ISPs (GS Telecom, Freeflow, Vodafone Great Scorria) to block websites disseminating footage and manifestos linked to terrorist attacks that were conducted on the same day in Kotaro (Great Scorria) and Canterbury (New Michillies). 4chan, 8chan, LiveLeak and Zero Hedge were all banned "permanently" (despite some sites having been terminated and later returned under new servers). Once the gravity of the Kotaro attack extended far beyond the initial expectations, and in growing response to the migration of Kotarans to the western states, Porowonian websites were blocked. PDFs of Nazist publications are, oddly enough, still available as of February 2020.
===Television===
The fallout of the 2019 shootings has led to increased regulations for violent content on television. Films with "a high amount of gore" had entire scenes removed or the entire film banned, much to the dismay of Show Cinema.
===Video games===
==Notable cases==