The recent Harry Potter series of books has been of huge benefit to children's reading. Where literally millions of children would be staring at the television or in a trance in front of the Playstation, they have taken to reading books. Surely this can only be good for them?.
According to many uninformed parents, no. They do not want their innocent, impressionable children being seduced by the evils of the occult and witchcraft that is so explicitly depicted throughout these books. So poor little Johnny is ordered to stay away from the sinful books and get back to his "TV dinner" and the "X-Files".
This is a simplified view of the situation, but the moral background to the issue of censorship has long been subject of intricate debate. In the example of Harry Potter, the banning of Rowling's books in schools and libraries seems excessive and self-defeatist considering the gains to children of reading popular literature. There are of course also arguments for censorship, especially when dealing with the extremes in books and other media that is entirely based on insulting certain groups of people.
The book "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is considered by many to be racist because of repeated use of degrading terms. However racial equality emerges as a theme of this book.
But who judges what the public have access to? To an extent, peoples existence is defined by what books they read, what newspapers and magazines they subscribe to and what films they watch. When anybody has control over what can be read and what cannot, they can control the entire demeanour of those peoples. Even with stringent legislation almost any wording of censorship law could be contorted by someone with the intention of restricting information. Under Hitler, Nazi Germany was very careful about what image was being presented in domestic press and literature and nobody wrote to many critical articles. .
Due mainly to the rapid increase in graphical quality (and hence realism), censorship of video games has recently also become an issue.
Governing the Internet dominates many debates, censorship leading the fight. ... (Censorship and the Internet 1) This can be done with software, not government intervention. As stated in "Censorship and the U.S. Government," "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity it should end there" (Censorship and the U.S. ... As one can see, censorship is driven by the fear of the unknown. ...
The results indicate that almost every country worldwide was perceived to have political censorship on the internet in certain degree and international students have different criterions of evaluation of cyber-censorship. ... Several studies have been conducted on the extent of knowledge and views on censorship among the general public. ... Regardless of these negative attitudes towards Internet censorship, there are also some positive views that censorship provides web users with preventative protection. ... Hence, it is essential to survey their knowledge of censorship and their attitudes to...
Censorship of the cinema and television is justified. ... The Censorship Board of Malaysia banned those movies from coming into our cinemas because the movie promotes violence, drugs and sexuality. ... The censorship is justified as it will protect our society from moral decay, religious critism and we have the ability to watch the movie with our family. Lastly I still think that censorship is bringing benefits to us rather than destroying us. The censorship is here to stay but we can't predict the future maybe the censorship board will be dissolve in the next coming years. ...
Censorship Censorship is the banning of written work. ... Censorship is a short term benefit for schools and a long term problem. ... Censorship certainly protects people who are sensitive to certain issues. ... You can't have censorship without infringing on the basic human rights. In conclusion, censorship shouldn't even be considered. ...
Rap and Censorship The beginnings of rap are believed to based on African rhythms which were used as a form of communication by the native peoples. ... Not all of government's attempts at censorship are as obvious as "Censorware." ... Local governments practice censorship even more often than the federal government. ... The private sector, most notably in the form of super-retailer Wal-Mart, has joined the government in the censorship war. ... One of today's leaders in censorship, especially censorship of rap, has become C. ...
Ownership is like the owner of something, who has the legal right to something or to control What is Censorship? ... How information and media control and ownership relate to censorship? ... First is the Information and media control, without the information control it's may cause conflict and confusion whereby the information just release without any approver knowing, without ownership the information can be use and publish to every one, if there is no censorship this also may cause harm and violent to public, so information control, ownership and censorship is very important for me...
Music Censorship in America "Music censorship is any discriminatory act that advocates or allows the suppression, control, or banning of music against the wishes of the creator or intended audience" (Nuzem 7). ... Music censorship is not American. Censorship is not new; it has been around for as long as government has. ... If any artist has felt the direct effects of censorship, it was Elvis Presley. ... But just because censorship occurs this often doesn"t make it right. ...
We need censorship to protect children from being exploited and exposed to things they shouldn't be. ... Congress is not all the way for censorship though. ... (www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/) We also need censorship on the television. ... Since the addition of cable there is a needed increase for censorship. ... Censorship is a necessary and beneficial limitation on society. ...
Censorship is not as recent as most people think. ... Censorship must cease before it gets to be out of control. ... Censorship is used in the novel by burning books. Censorship is oppressive. ... Corporations like Wal-mart have used censorship as vengeance and discipline. ...
Censorship In Fahrenheit 451, as in society today, censorship has completely destroyed originality and intelligence throughout the country. ... In some ways censorship is good, but in other ways it's gone too far. ... In the United States, censorship relates to this by keeping people from hearing all the facts. ... Censorship denies the public right to speech in all of its forms. ... In conclusion, censorship controls today's society. ...