Secretary of Media

Article 4: Secretary of the Media

§1. The Secretary of Media shall operate in but is not restricted to, SimDemocracy’s subreddit, SimDemocracy’s discord, and SimDemocracy’s YouTube channel.

§1.1. The Secretary of Media shall possess powers in the subreddit and manage general maintenance e.g. editing flairs and improving bots, working on any potential CSS, manage the sidebar, and work on any large community events.

§1.2. The Secretary of Media shall coordinate with the discord supervisor on Server perks, future innovation, and community events. There shall be an official SimDemocracy Youtube channel.

§2 The Senate shall vote on the name of the channel before it is created.

§2.1. Everyone may submit name suggestions for the channel.

§2.2. The Secretary of Media shall manage, post others’ videos at their discretion, and will be encouraged to make videos themselves.

§3. The Senate may vote on monetization of the Youtube channel once it gets big enough.

§3.1. There must be a plan in place to deal with the money for the vote to happen.

§4. In order to be officially recognised by the state, the media organisation, hereby defined as an organisation which provides broadcasting, film, internet, and text services for the public, must send in an application to the Secretary of Media detailing the:

§4.1. Name of the media company, a short description of what they plan to do, and the company's owner(s).

§4.2. The Secretary of Media then must respond to the application stating that their company is now an officially recognised media.

§5. As well as being recognised, the media company will be rewarded for the contribution to the community with monetary rewards.

§5.1. The Secretary of Media will distribute the monetary rewards between the media companies.

§5.2. The Secretary of Media will use their own judgement on what percentage each media company will receive, from a set amount given to the Secretary of Media from the government. This will be based on the factors that follow:

§5.3. The number of articles published in that week, the quality of said articles, the reliability, accuracy, and validity of said articles, whether the company in question has hosted any other beneficial events, for example, but not limited to; a presidential debate.

§6. The media companies will have the ability to bid on the ability to host an event.

§6.1. The SoM will make a post to the sub explaining the event’s details, and any companies interested will bid in the comments of said post.

§6.2. The media companies may not bid with money they currently do not own or will receive from the event.

§6.3. The winner may charge a small fee to anybody who wishes to witness the event live, but this has to be negotiated with the Secretary of Media and a summary of the event must be.

§7. If no companies bid for the event, a raffle will take place of all the media companies that are able to host the event.

§7.1. If there are two consecutive events that need a raffle, then the winner from the previous time shall be excluded from the raffle unless they are the only company able to host it.

§7.2. If the media company declines to host the event, then another raffle will take place.

§8. If a media company believes they have not been given the appropriate rewards, they have the right to appeal the decision.

§8.1. In order to appeal the decision, the media company in question will make a post to the sub detailing why they believe they should be given a fairer share of the rewards by proving what they did, explained in art. 3 §5.3

§8.2. The Secretary of Media will then either amend their mistakes or take the appeal to the courts, where a civil trial will take place.

§9. No media company is not legally bound to apply for official recognition, however, in doing so they forfeit the right to rewards from the government and the ability to host presidential/senatorial debates.

§9.1. The media company then has the right to make money using different methods, if they don't apply for rewards.

§9.2. The media company has the right to leave the recognised list, by simply notifying the Secretary of Media. This will have an immediate effect, and as such will lose it's recognized state

§10. The economy council will include the monetary rewards into the government budget.

§11. The rewards system will begin after the economy has been implemented.