Censorship in many ways consists of any attempt to suppress information, points of view, or method of expression. There are however circumstances when censorship is needed in order to maintain the status quo and/or to control the development of a society. In a society such as ours today, censorship is needed to protect us from our selves.
I think that censorship is justified under certain circumstances. One example of this justification would be during a time of war. It is the governments responsibility to secure the lives of their soldiers and therefore it is important that they can control the flow of information concerning their tactical moves. Another instance where censorship is justified is during the news coverage of disasters, terrorist or natural. Here I think that dead, mutilated people should not be shown. In many Islamic countries it is normal that the dead bodies are shown on tv, but I think it is tasteless and disrespectful towards the deceased.
Being exposed to acts of violence, blood shed, and destruction must have a psychological effect on people. Therefore if censorship did not exist the percentage of unlawful, violent acts would increase. People would become desensitized and they would loose their sense of reality. Imagine if someone was exposed to footage of dead people all day, every day. If then that person was confronted with an actual dead body it would not shock him and/or it would not even seem strange to him. .
Another sector that requires strict censorship is hardcore pornography. These films portray women as objects of lust, sometimes meat, that are there to use and abuse. Studies have showed that more than ninety percent of convicted felons rate hardcore pornography as one of their favorite past times. Being exposed to violent, descending behavior over longer periods of time often causes people to think behaving in that way is acceptable. .
Censorship these days however often seems exaggerated.
Ray Bradbury's famous book, Fahrenheit 451, is well-known across the country. Bradbury tells a story of cencorship. The irony in Bradybury telling a story of cencorship is the fact that the book itself has become cencored. The theme of the story is cencorship and rebelling. The theme of Bradbury's ...
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The first amendment to the Constitution contends that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press." In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by law makers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist and his or her lyrics. I feel that if a label will produce an album, there is no reason the consumer cannot decide for him or herself if ...
"How the music of the 60's influenced the differences and beliefs between the older and younger generation" During the Fifties, popular music was divided prominently along class and race lines. There were hardly any African Americans on the popular music scene. Popular music was thought to be ...
Censorship of Pornography" It has been stated that pornography creates disastrous effects to our society. There have also been claims that pornography depersonalizes and causes problems in marriages and relationships. There is no such evidence to support those claims and therefore I believe it to be unjust to censor pornography. Pornography is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but it is a controversial subject of political debate in this country. To some, pornography is evil and destroys many individuals and their families and is viewed as immoral material. ...
Censorship in Society The United States Constitution gives Americans many rights. One of those rights is the freedom of speech. A controversy has erupted in the United States because the government is unable to determine the limitations on this right. "In early America, when our forefathers wrote the Constitution, profanity was not accepted" (Shoeder 72). This statement makes determining the true definition of "speech" difficult. ...